When life grabs your ankles and shakes you upside down, Use the opportunity to take a look around, And grab that lucky penny just tumbled to the ground From deep inside your pocket now ready to be found. by Zoe Disigny [The sculpture above is called The Storyteller and was created by by Maree Block and Read More …
Author: Betty Disney
The Art of Visual Listening
Introduction This is the first in a series of posts about visual listening. As an art history professor for, well, let’s just say beaucoup years, I’ve taught thousands of students how to look at art and develop an understanding of the visual language art uses. In all those years, though, I’ve never called Read More …
Mannerism and the California Band-tailed Pigeon
Alighting on the black metal hook that suspends our bird feeder over the deck railing, the Band-tailed Pigeon perches momentarily before losing its grip and sliding down the smooth rod like a penguin on ice. It rests on the railing gazing at the feeder and thrusting its head rhythmically forward as if it were an Read More …