seanessay.com Falling freely down the rabbit hole—imagine the sights!—writing as I go, with my peers on Free Fall Fridays. Prompt- every second Monday Every second Monday I get off the trolley, hold my breath past the bakery, and stroll leisurely along the row of boutiques on tenth, making my way to Harrison Galleries. I learned […]
Art Easing Life
seanessay.com This week, some art smacked me right into bed with my clothes on. How to describe it? No, it wasn’t a painting that distressed me, although for some folks a picture can be awfully rough. Every year around this time the Imaginus poster sale makes the rounds of campuses. One reproduction is always bigger […]
Stupid Rich People’s Party
seanessay.com I got invited to a party! Oh boy! Well, not just me, everyone in the Advanced Toastmasters club, where I had been a guest a couple times, was invited. But after that stupid party, I never went back to that club… The girl with the harp from last week’s post, Eily, told me she […]
Learning Fine Art, Sans Martians
essaysbysean.blogspot.com If fine art finds some people as oblivious as Martians then maybe that’s from people turning away from two sorts of time. I sympathize. There is the time needed to learn: Training the eye and heart to appreciate the best. Which is nice to do, but who has the time for learning to enjoy […]
Martian Machine Passing Parthenon
essaysbysean.blogspot.com “Martian Machine Passing Parthenon” Being the title of a photolithograph, from after the War of the Worlds. Prologue Chief Engineer Gordon Malloy of “The Orville” (TV) in Lasting Impressions: “We look at these images of people who lived hundreds of years ago, and they’re so distant looking, that it’s easy to think that they […]