Shelter in Place
Back in February, I gave the prompt Neighborhood to our group. At the time, I was teaching, and traveling, and preparing for an exhibition at the Shelburne Museum in Vermont. I was in my perpetual state of running behind. About Mid-March, Covid-19 became a reality for all of America, and
Windows
I live in a big city called “Seoul” in Korea. As I live in a big city, I think the concept of neighborhood is changing. Maybe it’s because of the complicated and busy city life? It seems that there are more occasions when relationship with neighbors feel formal rather than intimate
Real Cherry in Blossom Viewing
When I was a young child after World War ll people had very little money. Neighbors invited each other to gather at the mountainside as a modest pleasure of spring. They sat beneath cherry trees full of blossoms, enjoyed box lunches, had drinks and sang all day and far into the night. Everyone
Art Buddies
March 29, 2020 |Karol Kusmaul For years now, I have attended a spring fiber artist retreat in New Smyrna Beach, Florida. Sometimes for a week, sometimes for 11 days, sometimes with a class or two, sometimes just to retreat and work on projects. The venue is unbelievably perfect. Lots of
The Only Blue House in the Neighborhood
Last month I went off to Mexico for a late winter break from the rain and gloom of Oregon. February had been very busy and I had not even begun to plan how I was going to respond to our “Neighborhood” challenge, but tucked it into the back of my
Where I Am. Where I Go
A small town in the context of the wider world.
Ailsa Craig
March 31, 2020 Catherine McDonald Neighbourhood means many things to me but none more so than a small country town that espouses the values of working together for the good of their town. In my piece I have tried to show the open countryside all around the town. Coming from
Rural Neighborhood
I live in a rural neighborhood surrounded by mostly native flora and fauna. If you know the Sierra Nevada foothills in northern California, you might be wondering why my quilt has so much green, when most of the year it’s so brown (or as we like to say, golden). For
Charlie
“No one has any intention of building a wall“ This sentence was said by the former GDR head of state Walter Ulbricht in a press conference on June 15, 1961. It was a lie. The Berlin Wall was built two months later and the inner German border was closed. The building of the wall had