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The Gendered Atom

by Karen Wyckoff

Treading the tepid waters of its own psychology, science—with its proud progeny of method and laws—is met with an unfamiliar reflection in The Gendered Atom, as the waterwings of its unchallenged heritage are stripped away. Routing... Read More

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Sleeping with One Eye Open

by Karen Wyckoff

“Thank you ironing for always being there, for holding me with board and cord to what’s sane. Sane.” Alice Friman, in an essay which symbolically pits fear of the unconventional against passion, may well have substituted a wayward... Read More

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Copper As Canvas

by Karen Wyckoff

Falling from the arc light of artistic nomenclature, oil paintings wed to copper seemingly elude classification, withdrawing to a reclusive realm of art. After flourishing with ample time and fertile foreign soils to claim interest in... Read More

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Grandmother's Secrets

by Karen Wyckoff

Belly dancing, so aptly named, leads to the deep, dark cave, the center of the earth, before flying, in all its pride and life-force, up to the light, to inspiration, and to new awareness. The way to the spirit is found via the body, via... Read More

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The Rosicrucian Enlightenment Revisited

by Karen Wyckoff

Though twice shrouded beneath its own inherent secrecy and with the solemnly laid dust of fallen centuries, the Rosicrucian mystery is realized nonetheless. Via its rich formative literature and with writings, which resonate its essence,... Read More

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Modern Art 1851-1929

by Karen Wyckoff

Regarding modern art, studies have traditionally unearthed several taproots commonly thought to have fed into an entire era of artistry—citing political, economic and social change, among others. Modern Art 1851-1929 finds a more human... Read More

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What is Painting?

by Karen Wyckoff

With similar timeless presence (in terms of location, if nothing else) the stark figures which haunt the cave of Lascaux and the secure pastels of countless hotel walls share an unlikely address: both are, by definition, paintings.... Read More

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Green Mountains, Dark Tales

by Karen Wyckoff

Mary Mable Rogers?… Even her name is unmemorable, more readily evoking a prim spinster than a nubile femme fatale. But at the turn of the century… Mary was the last woman to be hanged in the state of Vermont. And weirder still—she... Read More

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