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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

~ Writing on the Edge of the Wild

Deborah J. Brasket, Author

Monthly Archives: May 2017

Trying to Capture the Light

May 13, 2017

Capturing light in painting is one of the artist’s greatest challenges and deepest joys. I fell in love with the …

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Nothing But Miracles

May 7, 2017

  Miracles Walt Whitman, 1819 – 1892 Why, who makes much of a miracle? As to me I know of …

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Still Playing – Landscapes, Dreamscapes

May 2, 2017

I’m still playing with my painting, copying artists I love or using their vision, their palettes, for inspiration. Still trying …

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After sailing around the world in a small boat for six years, I came to appreciate how tiny and insignificant we humans appear in our natural and untamed surroundings, living always on the edge of the wild, into which we are embedded even while being that thing which sets us apart. Now living again on the edge of the wild in a home that borders a nature preserve, I am re-exploring what it means to be human in a more than human world.

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