van gogh the weaver.

(color wheel by Moses Harris–1766) Did you know that if you stare at a yellow circle for a minute or two and then close your eyes, you will see a purple circle floating around on the back of your eyelids? And that if you stare at a blue circle and then close your eyes you’ll [...]

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form from chaos, descending onto earth.

A friend once said that only narcissists commit suicide. At the time I felt like that a fair enough assumption (we were talking at the time about a wealthy, good looking movie star who had made the attempt but failed), but after reading and doing a little writing on Vincent van Gogh, I think I’ve [...]

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form from chaos–creation and will

Vincent van Gogh was a man who was intent on saving his soul through his painting. He was perfectly awful at marketing himself, unlike Picasso who was beloved despite treating his friends and lovers horribly (he once fired a handgun into the air in group of fans) or Salvador Dali who was beloved despite the [...]

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suffering and bones.

A few weeks ago I became intrigued with Vincent van Gogh. I remembered a story that a teacher told me, about how van Gogh shot himself in the stomach (which is an excruciating place to be injured) and that it took two days for him to die. His last words were, “Who knew that life [...]

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