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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

Tag Archives: art

“O Holy Night” in Art & Music

December 23, 2017

“Peace on Earth, good will toward men.”  Wishing you all a joyful and blessed Christmas.        

Three Favorite Art Studios

November 27, 2017

I. My art “home away from home” Nearly every week I come to paint with friends at this art studio, …

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Three Florals & Two Landscapes

October 21, 2017

As summer was turning to fall most of my painting was focused on florals and learning to create with acrylics. …

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Almost Blue, Jazz & Art

October 18, 2017

A perfect pairing for a Wednesday morning. Mellow jazz and my favorite color.    

Touching & Being Touched, Why We Blog

October 2, 2017

  “The function of language is not to inform but to evoke . . . responses.”  So writes Jacques Lacan, …

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Perfect Pairings, Evans’s “Peace Piece” & Sapiro’s Skies

September 28, 2017

Bill Evans’s “Peace Piece” is “an unrehearsed modal composition that he recorded for his “Everybody Digs Bill Evans” LP in …

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Playing Piano, a Full-Body Workout for the Brain

September 25, 2017

As I’ve begun learning to replay the piano, I’ve been amazed to realize what a complicated endeavor it is. It …

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Making Room for all My Loves – Music, Art, Writing

September 21, 2017

A year and a half ago I blogged about Learning to Play (Again) and wrote this I played piano as …

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In the Mood for Love, in Music and Art

September 15, 2017

Some favorite pairings in music and art to start your weekend off. I fell in love with this hauntingly sad-sweet …

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“Slow Swirl at the Edge of Time”

September 10, 2017

This naming of this painting did not come “like a conversation between two lovers,” as the name of my last …

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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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