Gulpture in the Park

“… Abstraction came about through the ever-narrowing focus of aesthetic gaze. The post-modern offshoots of abstract art may seem to be engaged in the same artistic project; but the appearance is, it seems to me, deceptive. Post-modern abstraction is really construction, in which abstract elements are combined ab initio, and without reference to the natural…

A Post as Lovely as a Tree?

  Trees By Joyce Kilmer   I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree.   A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the earth’s sweet flowing breast;   A tree that looks at God all day, And lifts her leafy arms to pray;   A tree that may in…