Non! J’Ai, Dit Non! Musings of the Artists Mind The title is “Non! Jai sit Non!” It’s all about the attitude of the figure. The body language says it…500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #453 – Non! J’Ai, Dit Non!
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #104: Champagne
Champagne: The History: Here’s my part of the story. Tell me what you see and start the next chapter… These were made following an invitation to …500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #104: Champagne
T.A.E.’s Book Review – The New Shadow by Christopher & J.R.R. Tolkien
The Burden of Peace: Tolkien’s Post-War Elegy The New Shadow is brief, unfinished, and in some ways more haunting than many completed tales because its incompletion feels thematically exact. Tolkien begins not with epic action but with fatigue: the end of the great age has arrived, and what follows is not triumph but spiritual drift. … Continue reading T.A.E.’s Book Review – The New Shadow by Christopher & J.R.R. Tolkien
I Can Feel the Colour and the Light
Imagine the lush greens, modulating hues and tones with the sunlight that hits them through the canopy. Imagine the wind twisting the leaves in all …I Can Feel the Colour and the Light
You’re Sweet
Ok, I was sort of spying on a couple next to me at the coffee shop. Not close enough to hear what they were saying, but the girl’s facial expression …You’re Sweet
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #452 – Monsieur
Monsieur Musings of the Artists Mind This proud gentleman may be calling in a lady friend. Waiting at her door, preparing himself to be announced by …500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #452 – Monsieur
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity: Part 3 – Sculpture – Faces
Part 3 – Sculpture – Faces After years of making things with self-drying clay and/or found objects, I felt ready to take classes in ceramics. I …500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity: Part 3 – Sculpture – Faces
T.A.E.’s Book Review – On Fairy-Stories by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Imagination’s Charter On Fairy-Stories is not merely an essay about fantasy; it is a quietly radical defence of imagination itself. Read today, it feels less like a lecture on a minor genre than a foundational poetics for the entire modern fantastic. Tolkien argues with unusual moral seriousness that fairy stories are not frivolous escapes … Continue reading T.A.E.’s Book Review – On Fairy-Stories by J.R.R. Tolkien
T.A.E.’s Book Review – Ainulindalë by Evan Palmer & J.R.R. Tolkien
Creation as Song, Creation as Fate Ainulindalë stands as one of the most ravishing achievements in Tolkien’s mythology: at once a creation narrative, a metaphysical meditation, and a theory of art. Framed in the editorial work of Christopher Tolkien from his father’s legendarium, the text does something extraordinary—it imagines the world itself as a form … Continue reading T.A.E.’s Book Review – Ainulindalë by Evan Palmer & J.R.R. Tolkien
Green Uncertainties
I have all these fern-like plants around my house. From far, they are not too exciting to look at but get closer and they become a jungle filled with…Green Uncertainties