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Tag Archives: Soulful Expressions
Frida Kahlo: In Conversation with Death
Mexican artist Frida Kahlo's relationship with death and dying in her work and personal life
Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) was an artist whose work spoke to the emotional and intellectual identity of its subject matter – no easy feat for a woman who was, first and foremost, a self-portrait artist. She created portraits of the human … Continue reading
Fed by the Shadow of Death
Renaissance painters were masters of light, life, death and shadow
The cultural bloom of the Italian – and wider European – Renaissance was fed by the shadow of death. The bubonic plague was carried by fleas traveling on rodents, who then hitched rides along the expanding trade routes in the … Continue reading
Finding Words
Emily McDowell's Empathy Cards beautifully frame empathic connection
Hallmark cards are there for the saccharine sweet moments in life, but how do you send a card to someone you know who is dying? Send one of Emily McDowell’s emotionally rich Empathy Cards. Being on either side of a terminal … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Cancer, Death and Beauty, Design, Emily McDowell, Empathy, Empathy Cards, Soulful Expressions, terminal illness, Vulnerability
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Light Passing Through
Amy Friend's photographs materialize the transience of light and being
Amy Friend’s photographic series “Dara Alla Luce” whispers ephemeral. Orbs of light give form to lines of the body, subjects whose physiology has long been returned to the dirt of the earth. Dara alla luce is Italian, translated as “to bring to the light.” We … Continue reading
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Tagged Amy Friend, Art, California Sunday Magazine, Death, Dying, Light and Being, Orbs, Photo Art, photography, Soulful Expressions
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Seeking Solace in the Landscape
Memory, visibility and healing at the National AIDS Memorial Grove
Landscape is so central to how we see and move through the world that it is often easily overlooked. When we perceive nature as wild and untouched, we seek solace in the vibrant forces at play, finding our lives dwarfed … Continue reading
