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Category Archives: Art Narratives
Giacometti’s Pietà
After following the Seine all day long, we were tired and had to tug ourselves up and away from the quais. At the first little bistrot we past, Chloe suggested omelets and wine. A young woman drinking pastis sat next … Continue reading
Posted in Age of Reconfiguration, Art Narratives
Tagged Giacometti, Michelangelo, Paris, Pietà, Pietà Rondanini, statues
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Chavela Vargas and Sound
The Depression had left us all in apnea. New York sidewalks were populated by people with corrugated foreheads and attitudes like milk gone sour. The heaviness of it all had dulled my senses and I desperately needed some art to … Continue reading
Walking
Before that summer, I often had romantic visions of myself as a flaneuse, elegantly dressed walking the streets of Paris as if I were the female version of Baudelaire. Smoothly sashaying in my Coco Chanel as I twirled my long … Continue reading
Let’s Get Physical (part 1)
Marily and I were sitting on her balcony listening to the cicadas because, she said, it was a form of Zen. I was trying to translate the cicadas’ sound into onomatopoeia when I saw this striking woman walk by. She … Continue reading
Posted in Age of Reconfiguration, Art Narratives
Tagged Achilleion, Corfu, graphic novel, Luigi Lucheni, narrative art, Sissi of Bavaria, women’s art
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Decluttering
Mutual friends had introduced us. Edith Wharton was in Rome and we were having tea at Babington’s near the Spanish Steps. Edith was not only a writer but also a crusader against the “Thermopylae of bad taste”. Having written a … Continue reading
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Tagged Babington Tea Room, Decluttering, Edith Wharton, hoarding, Ida E. Wood
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The Narrative Within 