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These “Food as Art” portraits came out of a classroom-wide exploration of food — food as nourishment, food as it relates to community and ga...
Monthly archives:June 2014
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for Nani
What is it keeps you flying
(a thousand miles in all, a garland
adorning the earth) when one of you falls,
a scarlet flower u...
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Thinking
the dusk
brings doom
stay outside
clean blue
there are places
on your hands
without calluses
that you can use
there ...
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Here, ginger
is the belly of a piglet
to scratch and feed; we eat
sage blossoms
and caught fish.
The roots here are burdock
from burrs...
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Place: Up-Island Vineyard
Time: 12 midnight (summer — everybody knows that a winter Island midnight comes at 9 pm)
We hear: Waves br...
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Menemsha 1993, Alison Shaw
The summer I turned eight, my father insisted I go sailing with him and Mrs. Gilchrest. In July the three of u...
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Many year-round islanders work more than one job — sometimes to support a family, sometimes to build a winter nest-egg by taking advantage o...
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A year past the close of the Pilgrim Century and some fifty-two years after the great Hammersmith Iron Works in Lynn (now Saugus), Massachus...
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I was determined to make an atomic structure that viewers could see and touch. Art and science — this is what I like . . . The atom is a col...
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Eleanor Stanwood has been working with wool for four decades. “Her distant ancestors were nomadic Mongolian shepherds,” says Stanwood’s husb...