Langstroth, Bee Mine
I bought a beehive earlier this year and this weekend I installed the bees. Over the winter, reading about beekeeping was a great escape from our long, messy, uncertain winter.
February: I placed a standard order for a 3lb. package of Italian honeybees,…
Trinity
A man struggling with cancer took a sudden turn for the worse. One day he sat sprawled in the sun reading a book that he balanced on the pinnacle of his hard old belly, and the next day his legs failed him. Time felt short.
Cardamom Cake
Saturday afternoon promised rain. While the sun still shined, I mowed the grass, and participated in outdoor stuff which for me, includes pulling a chair into the sun and reading until my legs go numb. Around 3pm, as if on cue, a horizontal scrim of storm clouds...
Cribs: Honeybee Style
I’ve really wanted a dog for a long time, but instead, in February I placed an order for 10,000 honeybees. For most of my adult life I’ve held onto a fantasy of myself as the kind of woman who struggles to keep her fingernails clean because she takes on messy projects...
Meet Me in London
Every now and then I get a little obsessed with Lee Krasner’s work. There’s been a renewed (maybe never lost) interest in her work since the 2017 publication of “Ninth Street Women,” by Mary Gabriel, a study of mid-century American artists Lee Krasner, Elaine de...
Three Cheers for the Quotidian
Whenever I’m at odds I look at art for a while. This weekend I rediscovered the American painter, Dana Schutz. A write-up on Schutz by Jill Medvedow for a 2017 show at the ICA/Boston summed it up very nicely, “Schutz’s paintings combine abstraction and figuration...