Concept Art: My Journey Towards Visual Art
I was introduced to the art of drawing at a very early age. I slowly progressed from drawing simple geometric …
Lana Del Rey’s Life in Poetry
“You see I’m a real poet My life is my poetry My lovemaking is my legacy.” Lana Del Rey’s first …
Nari Ward’s History
Recently, The Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston displayed Jamaican-American artist Nari Ward’s exhibition We The People. From the moment visitors …
Finding Poetry
Blackout poetry combines both language and creativity. Over two hundred and fifty years ago, a man named Caleb Whiteford was …
Bob Ross: The Timeless Artist
A man with a big afro and a big heart has been taking the pop-culture community by storm. Bob Ross, …
China’s Eiffel Tower: Nostalgic Replication
Out of the city centre rises the sensual curve, exquisite metalwork, and sharp spire of the Eiffel Tower. Below it stretches a broad …
At Rothko Chapel: Darkness Shall be the Light
The Rothko Chapel in Houston is an octogonal structure with no electric lights, only a thin skylight. Speaking inside is …
Civic Pride in Civil Art: About Those Ubiquitous Painted Boxes
A few years ago, driving down Houston’s major streets, I wouldn’t have noticed the bulky traffic-signal control cabinets that ubiquitously …
Bruegel’s Icarus: Responding to Suffering in the Media Age
It seems that we wake each morning to a new story of tragedy. Some, like the Parkland shooting, remain in …
No More Fuel to Burn: Confessions of an Artist
I enrolled in film school in 2015 after deciding to turn down my admission into an animal science and pre-veterinary …