a[n] [auto]biography and a love story.
I come here with a heavy heart this week, Reader. Often times, being an artist is quite lonely and isolating. Your work cannot be understood until it is finished — you cannot be understood, either. Not by many, anyway. I know Vincent felt the same way. And so I offer you some beauty I encountered […]
Mon, December 7 2009 » Personal, Photo entries, Research, Travel » 2 Comments
No one is quite sure what brought you to Arles. You wanted to go south, Vincent, away from Paris, and something drew you to this town. Perhaps it was what Michelet wrote about the beauty of the arlesienne, the women of Arles, but that was not what you would encounter here. Although the walls are […]
Mon, November 30 2009 » Photo entries, Popular Culture, Travel » 2 Comments
I went to Basel, Switzerland for one day. Basel was one of the later additions to my trip; it was a bit out of my way, but they had organized an exhibition of seventy of Vincent’s landscapes. All landscapes! I was thrilled to go, although I must admit I was in that city for less […]
Mon, November 16 2009 » Popular Culture, Research, Travel » No Comments