Chitra Pothi Lives On
Illuminated letters or temple decorations? Palm leaf painting dates back to medieval India and survives among artisans in a few small villages of Orissa. Back before there were computer screens to write on, there was this stuff called paper, made from plant material. It’s true.…
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Vanitas: Mocafico & the Masters, Old and Young
Flowers, skulls, lemons, bubbles, photographer Guido Mocafino resurrects an old genre, eeriness intact. There’s a skull in our garden. We splash it with water and it parches again. It sinks its teeth in a pot with violas, and when the violas die – it grins…
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Arthur Williams’ Vegetable Vixens
Aided and abetted by a friendly photographer and hair stylist, a Denver florist unleashes his inner couturier. After our recent plea for people-centric flower photographs, the cyber clouds parted and nymphs tumbled out of Colorado. They were dazy-eyed, as nymphs have every reason to be,…
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