Gwen


I recognized Rosalind Franklin's famous X-Ray diffraction photograph



(another place where the coastline of the deep blue Atlantic Ocean
is ringed by bioscience laboratories)


on silent supercomputers


the plasma that simulated the D-layer of silence


as if a writer worked on a terrible psychological battleground
for which the enemy held the battleplan...


In the dream I was walking with Norbert Wiener in Cambridge


Chinese artist Mu Xin. In prison in Shanghai during the Cultural Revolution.


Obata Chiura's transcendent paintings of the California hills


The spirit of John Muir walks with us in the meadows, forests, valleys and mountains

Dorothy

beautiful morning
blank canvas

like those that Quattrocento painters created
in magical landscapes

in captivity in her own homeland

when the plane Carole Lombard was on crashed

Audie Murphy - the most decorated soldier in World War II, he was killed in a plane crash on Memorial Day Weekend.

"I dreamed of spending the quiet years of the rest of my life here with you, and now I feel as if we are fighting World War III"

the pattern of relentless life interference

Arleigh Burke on the deck of the Lexington in the Battle for Leyte Gulf

perhaps it was the actor that played Hitler

and then the dream shifted

When I woke up, the sun was shining. I went to my studio and began to paint.

Sid

the significance of the beginning of each day

the drawing is remarkable for its expression of core human values

a life where his own work was as equally celebrated


as if our presence is an assumed component

magical paintings in which each image offers an entryway to an extraordinary life. The lingering questions of what was lost in an artist's struggle against pain.

Remember Ernest Hemingway

the lives and careers of artists

at the intersection of Peachtree and 13th in Atlanta, Margaret Mitchell was run down

something else I hadn't known

the diverse voices of our culture silenced by their covert attacks

Butterfly McQueen found it difficult to get work as an actress. She died of burns after a fire at her home

A few year later, Arnie Zane was dead. Lost to AIDS

like many other artists, particularly women, Alice Austen's work is under house arrest

when they were finally freed, Allan Houser was the first child born out of captivity