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Navigating my first Artist Residency

Rural New England has been my home for the spring. Winding country roads are everywhere around here. It’s easy to get lost, and find oneself […]

Portals

Portal: an entrance, a doorway, a threshold. My first foray on the Camino led to many thresholds. Walking an obscure section of one of four […]

2020 Year in Review

What a year. A quiet life at home, periods intense and stressful, so many plans on hold, societal ills exploding in front of us. As […]

Cracks in the Foundation

When the pandemic started, I observed that our society was unceremoniously being shown the cracks in our foundation. Specific areas had become incredibly dysfunctional and […]

Navigating my first Artist Residency

Portals

2020 Year in Review

Cracks in the Foundation

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Photo essay: Antique Air Show, Part 1

  • Post Author By arsmagnalucisetumbrae
  • Post Date October 17, 2018
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The title of poet of the skies could easily be given to French pilot Antoine de Sainte-Exupéry. The author of the fantastical story The Little […]

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Navigating my first Artist Residency

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  • Post Date June 8, 2022
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Rural New England has been my home for the spring. Winding country roads are everywhere around here. It’s easy to get lost, and find oneself […]

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Portals

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  • Post Date September 22, 2021
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Auxerre

Portal: an entrance, a doorway, a threshold. My first foray on the Camino led to many thresholds. Walking an obscure section of one of four […]

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2020 Year in Review

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  • Post Date February 22, 2021
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Breathing With Both Lungs
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What a year. A quiet life at home, periods intense and stressful, so many plans on hold, societal ills exploding in front of us. As […]

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Cracks in the Foundation

  • Post Author By arsmagnalucisetumbrae
  • Post Date June 7, 2020
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When the pandemic started, I observed that our society was unceremoniously being shown the cracks in our foundation. Specific areas had become incredibly dysfunctional and […]

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Breathing With Both Lungs

  • Post Author By arsmagnalucisetumbrae
  • Post Date April 10, 2020
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Lungs. A place of life and death and vulnerability… Breathing With Both Lungs I once heard it said Our lungs are where we hold our […]

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Writing by hand

  • Post Author By arsmagnalucisetumbrae
  • Post Date November 27, 2019
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“Writing by hand will show us True North.” Julia Cameron Part of my journey towards a daily art practice has included ‘morning pages’, the longhand […]

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Photo Painting Series No. 1 ~ 4

  • Post Author By arsmagnalucisetumbrae
  • Post Date November 21, 2019
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For a few years now, I’ve had this nudge to take photographs I have made, get them printed in B&W on watercolor paper, large scale, […]

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All Roads Lead to Burgundy

  • Post Author By arsmagnalucisetumbrae
  • Post Date November 14, 2019
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Series no. 1 ~ The first of four series of paintings I am in the midst of creating is an exploration of my journey on […]

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Remembrance

  • Post Author By arsmagnalucisetumbrae
  • Post Date November 11, 2019
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Throughout shadowed corners of churches crisscrossing Europe sit tiers and tires and trees of glowing candles. Icons of the voice of our longings, singing of […]

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Voie de Vézelay ~ Day 3

  • Post Author By arsmagnalucisetumbrae
  • Post Date July 28, 2019
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As I have been busy acclimating to France, and starting my walking pilgrimage, all my posts are going to be be published out of order […]

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