Susanna Partsch’s compact study of Franz Marc reads like a close, lucid argument wrapped in a beautifully produced object: part biography, part formalist reading, part cultural synthesis. Presented in Taschen’s Basic Art series, the volume is deliberately introductory — a short, image-forward guide to an artist whose restless palette and animal imaginaries have become shorthand … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Franz Marc: 1880 – 1916 by Susanna Partsch
Revisionist Poetry – When A Dally Dillies, v.3
When a dally dillies it's quite common, or not,for flowers to wiltif the staring cowcurls its tongue and stares. Too much, too soon —even I crave boundary:a rim of air, a measured tideto keep my thoughts from spilling. The boat cuts through the blueand leaves a neat, astonished wake. Finally,clouds roll over me in friendly … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – When A Dally Dillies, v.3
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Wealthing Like Rabbits by Robert R. Brown
Robert R. Brown’s Wealthing Like Rabbits announces itself like a contrarian primer: modest in size, mischievous in tone, defiantly uninterested in the pieties of finance-speak. Its subtitle — “An Original and Occasionally Hilarious Introduction to the World of Personal Finance” — is not mere marketing flourish but programmatic: Brown wants to teach, to amuse, and … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Wealthing Like Rabbits by Robert R. Brown
Revisionist Poetry – When A Dally Dillies, v.2
When a dally dillies it's quite uncommonfor flowers to wiltwhen the staring cowcurls its tongue. Too much, too soon —even I need limits:the soft shore of space,the steady pull of time. The boat cuts through the blue. Finally,the clouds float over melike friendly waves. Goodbye, rational thought.Goodbye.
Revisionist Pedagogy – Exploring Image Analysis and Interpretation: An Academic Perspective, v.2
In a world saturated with visual media, teaching image analysis and interpretation has to be more than occasional art-room talk — it must be a taught, assessed literacy. This essay argues that image analysis is a foundational visual-literacy competency that schools must teach intentionally, using Artificial Intelligence (AI) as an augmenting tool while centring cultural … Continue reading Revisionist Pedagogy – Exploring Image Analysis and Interpretation: An Academic Perspective, v.2
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – As a Man Thinketh by James Allen
James Allen’s As a Man Thinketh is a short, aphoristic meditation on moral agency and the formative power of thought. First published in 1903 as a slim, pamphlet-like tract, it has since persisted as a staple of self-help and New Thought traditions. Read today through a literary-critical lens, the text is at once a rhetorical … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – As a Man Thinketh by James Allen
Revisionist Poetry – Out of Sight, Out of Mind?, v.4 – sardonic
The flames rise to take their bows behind the curtains;we supply the kindling and sign the receipt. Sadness clocks in at nine, sips the coffee of routine,answers happiness’s calls with a polite, scripted apology. Wood gets promoted to coal, coal retires into ash —each stage files a cleaner, quieter claim. Expectations arrive in decent suits … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – Out of Sight, Out of Mind?, v.4 – sardonic
Revisionist Pedagogy – Generative Art and Visual Arts Education: an essay for curricular reform (Exploring the Intersection of Art and Algorithms: A Perspective Analysis of Generative Art, v.2)
Generative Art — where algorithmic rule-sets, chance operations, and computational models meet studio practice — offers a productive frontier for reforming visual arts education. This essay unpacks Generative Art’s historical roots, theoretical foundations, and contemporary significance with the explicit aim of showing how curricular integration can cultivate computational thinking, creative agency, and critical literacy about … Continue reading Revisionist Pedagogy – Generative Art and Visual Arts Education: an essay for curricular reform (Exploring the Intersection of Art and Algorithms: A Perspective Analysis of Generative Art, v.2)
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Metamorphoses by Ovid
Ovid’s Metamorphoses is less a single tale than an architecture of change: a vast, ebullient mosaic of transformations that proceeds from the universe’s primeval chaos to the deification of Julius Caesar. Composed in fluent dactylic hexameter and stretching across fifteen books, the poem is both encyclopaedia and incantation — an artful catalogue in which the … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Metamorphoses by Ovid
Revisionist Poetry – Out of Sight, Out of Mind?, v.4 – ironical
The flames rise, take their bows behind the drapes.We throw them paper hopes — polite, confetti-thin. Sadness chews politely, no need to hurry;happiness is filling out an application form. Wood becomes coal, coal updates its résumé,ash sends holiday postcards to the future. Expectations show up in party hats and maps,joy slips out for a smoke … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – Out of Sight, Out of Mind?, v.4 – ironical
The New Renaissance Mindset 