Posts Tagged ‘William Blake’

Judy Kensley McKie

Saturday, December 2nd, 1995

Work­ing in bronze, that most ancient and endur­ing of mate­ri­als, JUDY MCK­IE’s work reveals the pow­er of art to con­sole and heal. Her Bird Foun­tain has the silent, soar­ing pres­ence of great mourn­ing mon­u­ments. “The water makes you feel calm and peaceful,” she says. “It’s nour­ish­ing. A life force.”

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Camille Paglia

Monday, May 4th, 1992

“Moment by moment, night flick­ers in the imag­i­na­tion, in eroti­cism, sub­vert­ing our striv­ings for virtue and order, giv­ing an uncan­ny aura to objects and per­sons, revealed to us by artists.” “The sea, Dionysian liq­uid nature, is the mas­ter image in Shake­speare’s plays. It is the wave-motion with­in Shake­speare­an speech which trans­fix­es the audi­ence even when we don’t under­stand a word of it.”

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