At a time when things feel particularly frayed and fragile, finding a place of clarity and comfort is hard. Frequent reference has been made to the haunting the lines of W. B. Yeats’s 1919 poem, Second Coming: “The ceremony of innocence is drowned;/The best lack all conviction, while the worst/Are full of passionate intensity.” Every […]
Paula Vogel wrote the play, How I Learned to Drive, by staying up all night for two weeks. She had secured a theater residency in Juneau, but unforeseen circumstances caused her to arrive empty handed. As a result, she was highly aware of an obligation to produce something quickly. The long days of sunlight, the […]
Shakespeare on the Boston Common (Photo: Courtesy of Commonwealth Shakespeare Company) This summer has the look of life back in 2019. Lots of concerts, outdoor gatherings, busy beaches, people on vacations, overbooked flights. Even so, dogged remnants of where we have been remain, like masked faces that can still be spotted in the crowds. (I […]
Andra Samelson, Sky Churning, acrylic on canvas, 24 x 30″ . Every six months Pell Lucy artists come together for an online exhibit on Artsy.net. Thinly and Thickly is our summer show, the 10th online exhibit we have had since Pell Lucy came into existence in early 2020. Four new members have joined Pell Lucy: Heather […]
In a recent Washington Post opinion essay, Rebecca Solnit addressed the defeated, Sturm und Drang tone that dominates conversations about planetary extinction. Most of us have been operating from the assumption that a healthy future means giving up things and conveniences we love, then living lives of austerity. But what if it meant giving up […]
Zadie Smith in rehearsal for Wife of Willesden. Photo: Marc Brenner. . There are many reasons to make your way to Zadie’s Smith’s play, The Wife of Willesden. Based on Geoffrey Chaucer’s Wife of Bath, it draws on 600 years of admiration for Chaucer, the undisputed father of English poetry. And bringing this play to […]
Who knows where the art making impulse comes from? I certainly don’t. Considering all the people who, like me, are laboring daily to bring something new into existence even when it is thankless and difficult, this is a question best placed in the “no explanation” file. For a culture that is doggedly focused on what […]
. In the ancient archetype of the spiritual quest, the focus is almost exclusively on the itinerary of a solitary journeyer. Eastern wisdom traditions have long advocated for a path of solitude, isolation, self sacrifice, meditation. Models from the Western literary canon take a different route but they also feature an essentially solo journeyer: Dante […]
I think it’s particularly worrying at the moment because you can only create in an atmosphere of freedom, where you’re not checking everything you say critically before you move on. What you have to be able to do is to build without knowing where you’re going because you’ve never been there before. That’s what creativity […]
a single particle, by Robyn Ellenbogen OF A CHORD is the title of Pell Lucy’s latest online exhibition. The show, on Artsy.net, runs from June 17 through December 15, 2022. View it here. This exhibit introduces several new members of Pell Lucy: Alison Cuomo @alison_cuomo Website . Robyn Ellenbogen @robynellenbogen Website . Kat Fanelli @kat_fanelli […]