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Ken Berman, featured in WTP Vol. III #6, talks about his process and fascination with industry and humanity in a video visiting his studio.
David D’Agostino explains how landscape artists are adapting in a world of increasing environmental decay.
In Paris—Charles Bane, Jr., Reading [dropcap]C[/dropcap]harles Bane, Jr., publishes occasional fiction, but his writing life is devoted to poetry and its advocacy. His first book of poetry came to the notice of Past U.S. Poet Laureate Donald Hall, who corresponded with him for a year. These letters were donated to The Paris Review and University …
It was the concentration, the distillation, the pressing close of words, the patterns opening in eye and ear, the hope of the sheer complexity of life finding some kind of clarified echo…
Gerry Aldridge (almost) learns the hard way the importance of safety measures while sculpture-making.
The art of encaustic monotypes as painterly prints and the actual process of working with wax and encaustic tools.
WTP contributor Elizabeth Gauffreau narrates her own short story in our latest featured video.
Vol. V #3 cover artist Christopher Owen Nelson releases his artist statement in video form, detailing his process of portraiture and the necessity of connection.
Boston University’s The Art of Poetry website, a video repository of Robert Pinsky’s online class, “The Art of Poetry.”
Annariitta Saarelainen presents examples of her printmaking alongside a backdrop of her artistic process in this video. “My roots as a photographer manifest in deep attention to detail and focus on form expression… To me creativity means freedom—let my art speak for itself.”
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Imminence
oil on canvas
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By Alexey Adonin
Adonin explores the point of convergence between abstraction and surrealism.
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