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Author Archives: Nancy Wait
Battle Hill
Two strong and fearless women, one in a glorious helmet and armor decorated with snakes, the other in her crown of seven spikes, her tablet a book of law.
Their eyes lock. Lady Liberty raises her torch with her right hand. Minerva salutes back with her left.
Posted in ART, Brooklyn, Uncategorized
Tagged Battle Hill, Brooklyn, drawings, Green-Wood Cemetery, Minerva in Brooklyn, Statue Minerva, Statue of Liberty
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The Color Orange
On a gray day I went to the greengrocer for orange bell peppers and carrots to eat and to color and draw and digest. Ol’ Blue Eyes said, “Orange is the happiest color.” Van Gogh said, “There is no blue … Continue reading
Posted in ART, Uncategorized
Tagged color orange quotes, drawing fruits and veg, happy color, orange, sketchbook
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The Green-Wood Trolley
Ding-ding-ding goes the trolley… Except when it doesn’t. Because we did not want to wake anyone sleeping in the Green-Wood Cemetery. Cemetery is from the Greek word for “sleeping place.” This spring when I took the trolley tour we rolled … Continue reading
Posted in Brooklyn, Uncategorized
Tagged Brooklyn, drawings, Green-Wood Cemetery, Trolley Cars
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Snoozing on the Subway
Sleepy in the spring with the rocking of the train and time to kill, having a little time-out, catching a few winks between here and there, somewhere in a Brooklyn tunnel. I’m a subway voyeur, taking photos to labor over … Continue reading
Posted in A Day in the Life, ART, Uncategorized
Tagged Brooklyn drawings, Brooklyn subway, people sleeping, subway drawings
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Drawing People on the Subway
I’m still at it. I don’t have the wonder and awe I had in my 20s, but I remember how exciting it was learning to draw people, every subway ride an opportunity for study. From my latest (not yet published) … Continue reading
How an Artist is Like a Tree: Paul Klee on Creativity
By Paul Klee – Swiss-born German artist (1879-1940) The artist has studied this world of variety and has, we may suppose, unobtrusively found his way in it. His sense of direction has brought order into the passing stream of image … Continue reading
Posted in ART, Uncategorized
Tagged Art, art and feeling, creativity, drawing trees, expression, Paul Klee
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Touchy-Feely
It’s been years since I’ve had a stack of newspapers on the coffee table, and seeing it there made it look like home. As if this was what the living room had been missing. The papers. And to think I … Continue reading
Achilles Heel
If you woke up with a pain in your heel… Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged 12.12, art and feeling, art and healing, fear of lack, heel or heal, memoir, time and space, time factor
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Time Pieces
Time. It’s always time and there’s never enough. Except when there’s too much in this place where we’re all doing time. Time me, ti-me, tie-me-to-time. Or let the battery run out, let the ticking stop. But not my heart. Let … Continue reading
Nancy Wait 