Illustration by Khyati Trehan “Growing it Back – Can we persuade the body to regenerate by speaking a language it understands?” In this New Yorker Article (3/10/2021), the author Matthew Hutson, is referring to the “bodies language”. I am making a different reference: that the language in this article is dense with visual art & […]
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“I want to see indigo now—now!”
“I want to see indigo now—now!” Indigo plant extract applied to paper Oliver Wolf Sacks (1933-1915), a neurologist, naturalist, historian of science, and writer described in his 2012 New Yorker Article, “Personal History Altered States – Self-experiments in chemistry,” his rapturous color revelation of seeing the “huge, trembling, pear-shaped blob of the purest indigo”. This […]
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Eyes Right, Eyes Left . . .
From The Daily Heller: by Steven Heller Published on April 8, 2021 Heller states: “The joy of illustration (I use "joy" often in pandemic-era prose) is a simple equation: surprise + illumination + craft + ingenuity + style = revelation (or s+i+c+i+s=r).” Illustrator Melinda Beck spins a symbolic portrait of Louis Bourgeois, a an internationally renown French-American Artist (1911-2010). Louis Bourgeois is celebrated for her bronze, stainless steel and marble...
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