Shemaiah Gonzalez has published in Image Journal’s Good Letters, Ruminate, Barren, Ekstasis Magazine, among others. After earning degrees in Literature and Theology, she is now finishing up an MFA in Creative Non-Fiction in Seattle.
On the transformational art of Barbara Earl Thomas
There is an audible gasp as each person walks into the room. Conversations started are now cut off. Footsteps soften. Although it is not a church, there is a sense of reverence in this space. In this room there is sanctuary. Seattle artist Barbara Earl Thomas transforms paper, glass, light and shadow into a […]
I had expected to feel out of place at the museum, but it felt sacred.
Growing up in East Los Angeles, my family’s idea of art was the portrait of a snowy-haired man praying over his loaf of bread. “Give Us Our Daily Bread” was the implication as the image hung over the nook in the kitchen where we ate our meals. It is the only picture I remember on […]
Andrew Wyeth’s Snow Hill and the Subjects of Art
The story of a joyous, grief-laden painting
At first glance, it’s a peculiar scene: a maypole in the middle of winter. Six dancers clutch colorful ribbons in mid-frolic, and a Christmas tree is perched atop the pole. The scene is made all the more curious as these dancers are not children, but adults. Wyeth knows how to use a near-monochromatic palette. Dark […]
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