Author Archives: jolanta

Rocks are like people. They are an aggregate of materials formed slowly over time by nature and chance. They can be awkward and ungainly, but also glowing and beautiful. Rocks are easily identified and entirely common, yet there is something silent and mysterious about them. They are beautiful contradictions, and the same can be said […]

The Himalayas are a mountain range in Asia, on the border of China and Nepal. The Himalayan mountain system is the planet’s highest and home to all 14 of the world’s highest peaks, the Eight-thousanders, including Mount Everest. In Tibetan, the mountain is called Chomolangma or Qomolangma ("Mother of the Universe"). Chomo means “Goddess,” while […]

One night in the early 70s, young Japanese photographer Kohei Yoshiyuki and a fellow colleague took a walk through Chuo Park in Shinjuku, and encountered “something amazing”—a couple full on doing it.  It was this incident that launched one of Yoshiyuki’s most controversial projects: a series of grainy black-and-white photographs called The Park. Made during […]

The iconoclastic stance Charles Merrill takes as both an artist and activist goes far beyond the formalized calls of civic duty. “There is only so much you can do with paint on canvas,” he says. Nonetheless, Merrill continues to lay paint on canvas to express his perception of the violence permeating the increasingly intolerant attitudes […]

Circles were everywhere—red, blue, black, yellow, green—across the floor, on the walls, near the ceiling. Hung from the roof were five bicycle wheels painted the same colors through which a yellow dragon was flying. Below the dragon on the floor was a huge piece of white canvas splashed with similar circles. Another long piece of […]