I wasn’t looking forward to the photo call for this show. 15 headshots, 3 promo setups and only a broad-stroke plan of action. But more concerning than the volume and vagueness of what lay before me was the nature of the people to be photographed: pop vocalists and musicians, for the most part, very few […]
Back in the 60s, before her creative spirit was broken by a non-fatal brain hemorrhage, my mother’s dried floral arrangements were the stuff of local legend. Nipponese constructions, as I remember them. Twisty, turny things, spare and dramatic, distinctly apart from the staid bouquets cranked out by her contemporaries at the Sumter Garden Club. Unlike […]
There’s a passage in the Sinclair Lewis novel It Can’t Happen Here that I’ve flagged. It’s about the fragility of social order, but on this particular day it reminds me of my bipolar friend … “… The crust of learning and good manners and tolerance is so thin! It would take just a few thousand big shells and gas bombs […]
