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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

Category Archives: Art

Art that Mirrors the Inner Essence

April 28, 2019

I found this photo on the cover of Sun Magazine some years ago and fell in love with it. It’s …

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What Makes this Photo So Fascinating?

April 7, 2019

What makes a photograph great? What draws us to look again and again? What is it we see that fascinates …

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The Insatiable Eye – Sontag on Photography

March 31, 2019

In her book of essays On Photography, Susan Sontag speaks of the “insatiability of the photographing eye” in our image-obsessed …

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On Photography – Researching My Sequel

March 16, 2019

I’m working on a sequel to my novel From the Far Ends of the Earth, mostly research and note-taking at …

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Poem & Paintings, A Song

March 4, 2019

The sun does not shine on us but in us. The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, …

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Time-Traveling Through the Streets of Pompeii

February 24, 2019

One of my favorite stops during my travels last summer was visiting the ancient ruins of Pompeii, a sprawling city buried …

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A Symphony in Blue and Gold

February 17, 2019

I know I’ve written about this before, my love affair with the colors blue and gold, how they play so …

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“Endless Love” – A 6th Year Celebration

January 12, 2019

I created this collage to celebrate my daughter and her husband’s 6th wedding anniversary, today. They were married January 12 …

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Three to Share: Beauty, Art, Place

January 7, 2019

I love discovering new blogs that inspire me and want to share three, among many, that I discovered this past …

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2018 – A Look Back, a Look Forward

December 31, 2018

The end of a year always signals a kind of reckoning for me, the urge to look back and assess …

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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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