Epical Art
In the book Stephen Hero, James Joyce’s titular character defines beauty and the artist’s comprehension of his/her own art. Stephen writes an esthetic thesis with theories…
Read articleRemaking The Peace Symbol
This month’s Bloggers For Peace Challenge is about art. One of the prompts was to “create a piece of art that brings peace to the world…
Read articleReconciling Art
I don’t make a lot of sense. Most of you know that I’m a graphic designer for a living. My technical title is Art Director. I…
Read articleQu’est-ce Que Art?
This week, we attempt to answer the eternal question: what is art? Also in this edition, the rhetorical query: why do I insist on writing in…
Read articleA Synesthete’s Guide To The Most Beautiful Music In The World
This week, I’ve been feeling very artsy fartsy. It’s all this talk about color and my favorite artists. I blame the Daily Post. I’ve been listening…
Read articleFive Favorite Artists
The previous post about synesthesia got me into an artistic frame of mind. That tends to happen when I post art. I’ve talked about favorite films,…
Read articleDo You Hear In Color?
This week’s Daily Post Challenge is about color. To paraphrase William Gibson’s Neuromancer: color is “a consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions.” He was talking about…
Read articleShow And Tell
It’s show and tell day here at Fish Of Gold. Everyone has to bring something in to show the rest of the class and discuss it.…
Read articleLiterary Tattoos
I have tattoos. I don’t have as many as I would like since I’m a poor, starving artist and new tattoos rarely seem to make it…
Read articleCreative Expression
What are your favorite ways to express your creativity? This is a silly question to ask people who try to write every day, don’t you think?…
Read articleHow Do I Stay Focused?
The short answer is that I don’t. I try to stick to a daily schedule of things that I do, writing answers to these silly prompts…
Read articleWhat My Home Says About Me
My home says that it’s not my home. My home says that I live with a boy who, admittedly, has no sense of personal style. He…
Read articleThe Best Kind of Gifts
I’ve been poor for nearly a decade by sticking around in a dead end job that refused to pay me a reasonable, living wage. I am…
Read articleStuck
I haven’t been writing much on here partly because I’m trying to write my life story. Autobiographies are harder to write than one would suppose. So…
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