Cerebrovascular Vigor: Jacob Van Loon Interviews Geoffrey Todd Smith
Geoffrey Todd Smith is a visual artist living in Chicago. Originally from Cleveland, he graduated from the School of the Art Institute with a BFA in 1995 and headed an hour west to DeKalb to attain his MFA from Northern Illinois University. His work focuses on dense, pattern-based motifs that generate a gravitational pull. The […]
What has been done is un-done by living: Jessica Deane Rosner’s Ulysses Glove Project
Rhode Island has much to recommend it as a culturally-rich arts destination. In recent years, Providence, the state’s “creative capital,” has been touted as a vibrant hub of artistic endeavor. Among the many knowledgeable curators of the dizzying array of cultural offerings, I find my personal tastes well-served by the Providence Athenaeum and the doyenne […]
Inside Out
There is inside. Most of us spend most of our time there. There is usually something that separates that space from nature, which can often be cold, wet, or other forms of unpleasantness. Outside makes me feel small but not always in a bad way. Often both spaces are boring and normal, especially when the setting is mundane, […]
Dana Scully, Resplendent
There is an exchange in “Memento Mori,” the fourteenth episode of the fourth season of the X-Files, in which Dana Scully – FBI agent, medical doctor, redoubtable skeptic, possible alien abductee, conflicted Catholic, survivor of hundreds of losses and tragedies – breaks the news of her recently diagnosed cancer to her partner Fox Mulder by […]
