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Archives for July 2015

Glimpse of Solace: Bathroom Escher

07/31/2015 By Ellen Beals Leave a Comment

Glimpse of Solace: Bathroom Escher

Hey there. It's a beautiful Friday night. It's Lolla time in Chicago. I found M. C. Escher on my bathroom floor. Trippy. Tonight there's supposed to be a Blue Moon -- so look up! Have a great weekend.   … [Read more...]

Filed Under: A Glimpse of Solace Tagged With: Blue Moon, Chicago, Ellen Beals, Ellen W. Beals, Ellen Wade Beals, Glimpse of Solace, M. C. Escher, Optical illusion, Photography, Photography of Ellen Wade Beals, Solace in So Many Words, summer, Trippy, Weighed Words

Do you know how you look?

07/26/2015 By Ellen Beals Leave a Comment

Do you know how you look?

The other day in the paper I saw a photograph of a politician, an older man. It wasn’t a posed picture; it looked like he didn’t know he was being captured on film.  The snapshot was anything but flattering. Every facial feature pointed downward. His eyes were cast downward. But more than that, his wrinkles and creases seemed to be weighed down, sagging, and his chin, in a giant flattened pout, had rutted into a circle of wrinkled flesh. The picture was so bad that I felt … [Read more...]

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Glimpse of solace: photography experiments

07/23/2015 By Ellen Beals Leave a Comment

Glimpse of solace: photography experiments

July is flying by.  Hope you are busy and having fun.. Also hope you have time to play. Today and yesterday were the best days of summer here so far -- skies were blue for a change. I was out on the deck fooling around with my camera (and a kaleidoscope) and reading T. C. Boyle's latest book (The Harder They Come).  Anyway, here's what I came up with. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: A Glimpse of Solace Tagged With: creative play, Ellen Beals, Ellen Wade Beals, experiments, July, kaleidoscope, Photography, Photography of Ellen Wade Beals, Poetry, publication, Solace, Solace in So Many Words, summer, summertime, Weighed Words

Ed Paschke Art Center

07/15/2015 By Ellen Beals Leave a Comment

Ed Paschke Art Center

Last week I visited the Ed Paschke Art Center in Chicago’s Jefferson Park neighborhood (5415 W. Higgins). The storefront museum is open seven days a week from ten a.m. to seven p.m. It’s free. For those who do not know about Chicago artist Ed Paschke, he was a contemporary (1939-2004) artist who lived in Jefferson Park and taught at Northwestern University. Here’s the Wikipedia link. You may want to take time and see all his art on digital display. The art center has a … [Read more...]

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News, call for submissions, and what’s “just?”

07/08/2015 By Ellen Beals

News, call for submissions, and what’s “just?”

Jan Bottiglieri has a book of poems out—it is called Alloy and it is from Mayapple Press. Here's how Mayapple describes Jan's book: "A butterfly casts the shadow of a man; a homesick mermaid cleans teeth; a young girl pushes a heavy iron, singing. In Alloy, these and others (daughter, mother, astronaut; an occasional zombie or alien) find voice through poems exploring memory in all its shifting sense and purpose: from childhood recollection to adult reckoning, from folklore … [Read more...]

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