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Micro Gallery

The Anatomy of Moments

June 26, 2025June 23, 2025 Vanessa Able

Hosho McCreesh's visual, lyrical, haiku-like psalms are strikingly beautiful, and always striving for less.

Tagged dark, Haiku, humanity, landscape, loss, love, meaning, photography, Poetry, psalms, struggleLeave a comment
Nocturne by Harry Bauld
Micro Gallery

The Pitch of Color

November 22, 2024November 25, 2024 Vanessa Able

Harry Bauld's thick, colorful canvases are intensely observed landscape paintings of the natural spaces and hues in New York and Connecticut.

Tagged color, dawn, jazz, landscape, nature, nocturne, paint, pitch, surface, van goghLeave a comment
Micro Gallery

Osteoborg

July 19, 2024July 19, 2024 Vanessa Able

Andrew Nelson's fantastical drawings show us a distant future inhabited by living bone robots that are part-organic and part-machine.

Tagged bones, drawing, dystopia, environment, future, landscape, robots, surrealLeave a comment
Way-Seeking Mind

Pigs in Winter

August 10, 2022August 28, 2022 Vanessa Able

BY QUINCY MCMICHAEL Snow is water, and water conducts electricity, but the electric fence will not fire as usual, buried three feet deep.

Tagged childhood, landscape, love, nature, pigs, snowLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Mark Hammerschick – Permafrostedness Rising

April 24, 2022April 21, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

"Permafrostedness Rising" is a tragic poem written from the perspective of native arctic people, detailing a world altered by climate change.

Tagged climate, climate change, environment, global warming, landscape, loss, nature, Poem, poet, PoetryLeave a comment
Mount Toubkal
Way-Seeking Mind

Breathing

April 19, 2022April 18, 2022 Vanessa Able

BY SONIA TRICKEY We began our ascent of the South Cirque at 5:20am. Snow had fallen thickly overnight, the path was invisible and it was very dark. Most of us had barely slept.

Tagged grief, hiking, landscape, morocco, mountains, nature, SilenceLeave a comment
Micro Gallery

Jacob Lehmann – Constructed Spaces

October 28, 2021October 28, 2021 Vanessa Able

In his collaged paintings, Jacob Lehmann explores the relationships between isolation and nostalgia, in connection to childhood.

Tagged childhood, collage, isolation, landscape, nostalgia, painting1 Comment
Nancy Holt
Artworks

Nancy Holt’s Mystifying Sun Tunnels in the Great Basin Desert

August 20, 2021August 17, 2021 Vanessa Able

Nancy Holt's Sun Tunnels in the Great Basin Desert in Utah are four 18-foot long concrete tubes arranged in an X-formation and aligned with the movements of the sun.

Tagged art, ecology, environment, land art, landscape, nature, women in artLeave a comment
Robert Smithson
Book Bits

‘Nature is Never Finished’ – Artist Robert Smithson on Cultural Confinement and Finding Real Freedom in Art

July 30, 2021July 30, 2021 Vanessa Able

Robert Smithson's brand of land art went against the hegemony of galleries and museums who he accused of dictating the context, meaning and value of art.

Tagged Culture, ecology, Freedom, land art, landscape, meaning, nature, spiral jettyLeave a comment
Nan Shepherd
Book Bits

Out Of the Body and Into the Mountain: Nan Shepherd’s Journeys Among the Scottish Cairngorms

June 29, 2021June 28, 2021 Vanessa Able

Published thirty years after it was written, Nan Shepherd's nature memoir describes a very physical intimacy that grew and developed through the author's exploration of the Cairngorm Mountains.

Tagged being, Body, Cairngorm, ecology, landscape, memoir, mountains, nature, nature writing, pilgrimage, Scotland2 Comments

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