Vincent's Yellow

a[n] [auto]biography and a love story.

Crescendo

At the end of his life, Vincent van Gogh painted seventy paintings in seventy days. That’s right. The daughter of the innkeeper in Auvers told us that his schedule was quite regular: he woke up bright and early and went out to paint, came back to the inn for lunch, spent the afternoon making the […]

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Mon, June 28 2010 » Personal, Research, Theater piece » 2 Comments

Beginnings & Paul Gauguin

Things are starting to really heat up now. Tomorrow we have our first fundraiser at The Spot, in Chicago ($5 trivia! 7pm!), which I am very excited about, and a more intense rehearsal schedule kicks in soon. It’s time to start blocking and really building this play. This is both thrilling and a little daunting. […]

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Mon, June 21 2010 » Personal, Research, Theater piece » 1 Comment

Dance & Song

Hello dear readers. Ever since I really saw this painting at the Met in New York City, I wanted to somehow capture this: I was pretty pleased with getting a photo of it, and my butterfly net of words managed to at least capture some of its vertigo with poetry, but then I desired to […]

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Mon, June 14 2010 » Theater piece » No Comments