skin art: the mystic eye

The Mystic Eye Time: 5 hours for outline, 2 hours for color. Tweet Photos by Reviewer Rob “Mandala” a spiritual and ritual symbol in traditional Hinduism and Buddhism, representing the universe. The basic form of most mandalas is a square with four gates containing a circle with a center point. Each gate is in the general shape of a T. […]

Can Art Give Us Hope?

[Art Scene] A Recent Event in Connecticut Tweet By Jason Stoneking I didn’t realize until quite recently that on some level I am actively looking for hope. If you would have asked me a few years ago, I might well have said that the portrayal of hope was somehow sappy or pedestrian, something better left to the realm of Disney […]

novella excerpt: The Luminous Memories of Alexander Vile

[Excerpt] The Luminous Memories of Alexander Vile Tweet by Natasha Jones The Beginning of the End This is the beginning of my vile story. It centres on a proud, life-long hero. He was no hero for ‘simpletons’ but he was mine. He was her hero too, Joanna’s. His wife and child he loved and lost in a flash, his passions […]