The Journal
The Journal: Essays on Art, Culture, and the Self
A collection of quiet reflections exploring the humanity found within various forms of artistic expression.
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FEATURED · On InnocenceIn Defense of Beauty
Read essay: In Defense of BeautyMuch like how society simultaneously loves and hates the artist, beauty is simultaneously revered and reviled. The interest to covet and possess beauty often dominates appreciation of beauty and plunders the potential for the strength…
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On Standards
There is a particular pleasure in making something slowly, with your hands, that resists explanation to anyone who…
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The Spiritual Architect
There is a photograph in which Marlene Dietrich is partially obscured. A shadow, a veil. And yet she…
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Schiaparelli and the Surreal Body
The pink that Schiaparelli named “shocking” was not an accident. It was a thesis. The body it dressed…
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On the Discipline of Devotion
Devotion is not the same as obsession. Obsession is possessive. Devotion is willing to let the beloved remain…
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The Self Is a Collage
I became interested in collage not as a craft but as a theory — the idea that something…
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Moonrise Over the Borrowed Life
The moon does not perform for anyone. This is what I love most about it. On even the…