Come to Cold Mountain – Porcelain, Part 2
How was porcelain first created in China? Please see Porcelain, Part 1. In 1271, seventeen-year-old Marco Polo began a five-thousand-mile journey
When Thousands of Hands Held a Secret for a Thousand Years – Porcelain, Part 1
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science, said
The Hissing Paint Box
Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in performance is sculpted into something. – Frank Zappa Music
Won’t you help to sing these songs of freedom?* (Part Two)
In 1879, Auguste Rodin entered a competition to design a war memorial honoring the Parisians who defended the city while it
Won’t you help to sing these songs of freedom?* (Part One)
(Above: Rue de Rivoli, Paris; 1871) What makes a war memorial appropriate or inappropriate? Whom or what should be remembered?
The Inevitably Acquiescent Volcano
Vulcan thought his ex-wife was out of the picture. Then one day while he was at work, she suddenly appeared
A Perfect Indian is He*
In 563 BCE, in foothills of the Himalayas, a holy man prophesied that the king’s newborn son, Prince Siddhartha Gautama,
