Welcome to After the Art‘s third issue!
We hope you enjoy these three essays:
“Certain Imperfection: Revisiting Zetsu No. 8” by Nina Gaby
“Girl on the Beach” by Nora-Lyn Veevers
“The Chapel of Man and All That Endures” by Daryl Farmer Continue reading “After the Art – Issue 3”
by Nina Gaby
Somewhere in the barn I still have the coil-built turquoise vase I made in high school, junior year. By junior year I was already drunk on pilfered vodka or high on cough syrup by homeroom, plotting and planning my escape, creating mayhem in the house so I could get mad and run away. Continue reading “Certain Imperfection: Revisiting Zetsu No. 8”
by Nora-Lyn Veevers
Joaquin Sorolla painted this sun-soaked oil in 1910 on the coast in Valencia, Spain. I discovered Sorolla in the Carmen Thyssen Museum in Malaga, Spain two years ago. I love the luminosity of his paintings. A young girl stands on the shore and looks out; the waves fold in on each other; her body toasts in the heat of the day and her gaze rests on a horizon. Continue reading “Girl on the Beach”
by Daryl Farmer
Bookstores, for me, are sacred spaces and it’s my practice to visit them wherever I go, even in countries where I don’t speak the language. I hold the books in my hands, open them, look at words I don’t understand. In Quito, Ecuador, we – my wife Joan and I – discovered just such a place, connected to a coffee shop half a block from our hotel in the quiet neighborhood where we were staying. The shop owner was very kind, and in him I found a kindred spirit, a fellow lover of books, and astronomy, and travel. I told him we had two days to spend in Quito, and asked what we should see. He pulled a book from the shelf, and handed it to me Continue reading “The Chapel of Man and All That Endures”
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