Credit: WillocqF(Public Domain Photo) We are projectors. We close our eyes in meditation to pause the projections. To see someone as they are you need to see them through your projection of them. That,

Jean Siméon Chardin (French, Paris 1699–1779 Paris). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. When you graduate to the knowledge that there’s nothing to give up in order to get what you want, things start

When you are surrounded by wolves, don't be a wolf, be the fire. -- Public domain photo courtesy of Doodlebug

When I began my last semester of senior year in college, I got ambitious and decided to do an independent study supervised by the artist, writer and teacher Julius Lester. In the throes of young love (I

To say that the world and our experience within it is gnarly is a vast understatement. Just yesterday, before I had a chance to pour myself a bowl of cereal, my iPhone lit up with an emergency alert announcing

Media seem to be dissolving into what they’ve always been substitutes for, namely, personal relations. The reabsorption of media back into the base medium of communication is generating interesting phenomena