The frame holds a tipped crate,its lip offering up colour —ochre, rust, lichen-green —a spill arranged by gravity, not grace. Each gourd is rendered patiently:thick ribs catching light,warted skins stippled like dry brushpressed into stubborn canvas. Shadow pools beneath them,cool blues cupping warm bellies,edges softened where the eye rests too long,sharpened where a knife of … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – Autumn’s Fruit, v.4 (ekphrastic reworking for painters)
Revisionist Pedagogy – Integrating Social and News Media Literacy in Pre-Collegial Visual Arts Education: A Comprehensive, Actionable Approach. (… A Comprehensive Approach, v.2)
Integrating social and news media literacy into pre-collegial visual arts education is not an optional add-on — it is a curricular priority. Visual culture now shapes how young people perceive events, form opinions, and participate civically. Arts classrooms are especially well-placed to teach students to read, produce, and ethically evaluate visual content. This essay proposes … Continue reading Revisionist Pedagogy – Integrating Social and News Media Literacy in Pre-Collegial Visual Arts Education: A Comprehensive, Actionable Approach. (… A Comprehensive Approach, v.2)
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
Rowling’s third instalment in the Harry Potter sequence marks a decisive tonal and structural shift: less the cosy wonder of schoolroom discovery and more a novel preoccupied with memory, justice, and the uncanny ways the past returns to shape the present. Prisoner of Azkaban is both a tighter mystery and a deeper moral exploration than … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
Revisionist Poetry – Autumn’s Fruit, v.3
Crate overturned. Gourds tumble—humped, hollow, stubborn as small planets.Colors bruise—pumpkin, pewter, lime—skins pocked like weathered faces. Sun and rain carved them. Hands did not.They rattle when nudged, sound like loose teeth.Cold breath comes through the field; leaves scatter. I cup one: its skin is dry, warm where the day held it.No sermons. Just the taste … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – Autumn’s Fruit, v.3
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
If the first volume of J.K. Rowling’s saga announced a wholly imagined magical world with the innocent exhilaration of discovery, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets registers the series’ movement from charm into consequence. Rowling’s sophomore effort tightens the mechanics of her imagination while deepening the book’s moral and formal ambitions: it is at … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
Revisionist Poetry – Autumn’s Fruit, v.2
In late harvest light, a wooden crate tips—a river of nobbled gourds pooling on straw:squat globes, long-necked lanterns, sun-browned mapsmottled with ochre, chartreuse, and bruise. Each one a small, knotted country — scoredby sun and rain, ribbed with winter’s memory,its pockmarks and scars the kind of languagethat names droughts and late frosts without a shout. … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – Autumn’s Fruit, v.2
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone performs a curious double task: it reanimates familiar strands of the British children’s-book tradition (the orphaned schoolboy, the boarding school adventure, the fairy-tale quest) while announcing, with surprising economy, the existence of a fully imagined parallel moral universe. Read as a discrete text rather than merely the … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
Revisionist Poetry – Art is Everywhere, v.3
In the cluttered hush of the studiothe inventory of things begins to list itself:a cracked crate, a sagging shelf, a rolled canvasbreathing like folded skin in the corner. A canvas draped over a chair, a clay hand in a jar,colours spattered down the floorboards like small suns.Each piece carries the humidity of a night—the tremor … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – Art is Everywhere, v.3
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Shopkeeper’s Home: The World’s Best Independent Retailers and Their Stylish Homes by Caroline Rowland
Caroline Rowland’s The Shopkeeper’s Home: The World’s Best Independent Retailers and Their Stylish Homes reads at first like a beautifully curated cabinet of curiosities — a procession of storefronts and private interiors that insist, by virtue of their arrangement and photography, on a particular kind of attention. But read more closely, and Rowland’s book does … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Shopkeeper’s Home: The World’s Best Independent Retailers and Their Stylish Homes by Caroline Rowland
Revisionist Poetry. – Art is Everywhere, v.2
In the cluttered hush of my studioa sheet of canvas breathes like folded skin.Turpentine fogs the window; a plaster handleans against a crate stamped LAST SUMMER. One painting is a bruise of ultramarine—another, a grin of ochre stuck on burlap.I price them in small currencies: time, regret, glue.Sell one and the throat hollows; keep all … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry. – Art is Everywhere, v.2
The New Renaissance Mindset 