This is what you shall do: love the earth and the sun and the animals . . . – Walt Whitman Rachel Carson wrote Silent Spring in 1962, but I suspect that for most people reading it today, the information would be fresh, enlightening, and alarming. I can say that with some confidence because though […]
When I play with my grandson, we suspend the logic of reality. Toy dump trucks fly, giraffes talk with polar bears, gravity is a joke, a paper airplane zigzags twenty feet and has circumnavigated the Earth, an 18″ high wobbly block tower is the Empire State Building. Mortality is a hiccup. Such is the logic […]
How the Chimney-sweepers cry Every blackning Church appalls, And the hapless Soldiers sigh Runs in blood down Palace walls.— William Blake, London A friend asked me, since the Americans Who Tell the Truth portrait project originated as my reaction to the criminal US attack on Iraq, how I felt about the escalating violence in Iraq. […]
You have what you desire: the new Rome, the Sparta of Technology and the ideology of madness.–Mahmoud Darwish I returned a few days ago from Palestine, where I was part of Lily Yeh‘s Barefoot Artists team recruited to paint a mural in each of three places – the Balata Refugee Camp, the Old City of […]
Artist Robert Shetterly learns a discouraging lesson from kids, who don’t know who Shirley Chisolm was.
Bill Bigelow encourages environmental advocates to be emboldened by the abolition movement of the 1800’s. Despite the odds, they persisted and achieved their goal.
My son and his wife live in Mexico. Gail and I hadn’t seen them in a long time and had never been to the town they moved to four years ago. If one is able, it’s rarely a bad idea to get out of Maine in late February. We flew to Mexico City where they […]
Artist Robert Shetterly reflects on Loren Eisley, native wisdom and the climate crisis.
Chances are you haven’t heard of Clyde Kennard, an unsung hero and martyr of the Civil Rights Movement, a man of great wisdom, compassion, gentleness, and determined courage. Until a few months ago, I hadn’t either. Then a colleague told me a remarkable story about a man set on showing southern Mississippi white people that […]
Artist Robert Shetterly muses on the difference between cool photo apps and art.