Many people subtly suspect they are more creative than their lives currently allow. The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron was written for exactly this person. …
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Cul-de-Sac
The Yeiser Art Center Members + Sponsors Exhibition has always felt to me like a room where private meditations are briefly made public. Objects that …
Beauty as Nervous System Regulation
Perhaps this is what beauty does when we carry it long enough. It moves inward and becomes reflex. Cosmetics always felt like this to me …
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Wearable Love: Makeup, Fashion, and the Heart
Love is not only a feeling; it is a practice. The feeling comes from the practice itself, from repeated decisions we make to return to …
Where Old Versions of Us Go
There is something audacious about donating clothes, a gesture that pretends to be practical while secretly carrying the weight of a confession. Inside that bag …
On the Medium We Let Decide
There is a brief elevator scene in Mad Men in which a young model explains to Pete Campbell that she was called in for a …
On Snow Days
What We Hold Up to the World
There is a certain comfort in this kind of coincidence. It suggests that our private preoccupations are not as private as we imagine. That ideas …
Small Rooms, Big Questions
For a long time, I knew Norman Rockwell only as a cultural shorthand. His name seemed to stand for a particular idea of America: tidy, …