First, the original promotion and artist statement: Visit the Downtown Improvement District Office September–October to see Art Alliance member Randi Anderson’s exhibition, The Mind is a Frightening Place, an exhibition of acrylic paintings and poetry that explore the inner world of desires, fears, and mental illness. Is your mind a safe place? I wonder how … Read more
No comment. Marian Devotion My mother is not a club, neither the exclusive kind nor the sort men wield to beat their women into tiny boxes of silent femininity. My mother is the measure of what no man can be without grace, what all men could be if emptied of judgment and imbued with the … Read more
I’ve been wondering how to share my recent poetry without my former community on DeviantArt, and it occurred to me tonight that I’ve been neglecting this blog completely! This is where I used to share everything! So here I am again. To get started, I’ll share some poems I was thinking about today. I wrote … Read more
Original artist statement for the Midsommar Crowns show at the Bellefonte Art Museum, February 2022. A brief reflection follows! In the 2019 horror film Midsommar, there’s a striking emotional core in which the heroine Dani’s emotional vulnerability is treated as a burden and outright annoyance by her emotionally stunted, indecisive, and indifferent boyfriend, for whom she … Read more
It’s a common belief — or at least a very common, unquestioned association — that goodness is boring, and evil is fun. This is especially the case when we think about fictional characters, but it also extends to life. I’d rather go to hell because people in hell are more interesting, I’ve heard. This has always … Read more