(The San Joaquin's own Lightning Field.)

(About 12 miles from Mendota, CA.)

End of the semester student work: Radiolarians, Arthropods, and other cool creatures.

(Paintings by George Shaw)

(Photographs by Ingrid Hernández)

To some, an explicit social mission redeems the art object; to others, it compromises it. For some, the social is figural, for others, it is literal.

--Shannon Jackson

“Just make all kinds of little things happen. Wherever you think they should be, that's -- there's one right there -- that's where they ought to be, where you decide. Because this is your painting, your world. Let it happen. Okay …”

--Bob Ross, 1986

Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide in the 20th century. Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's brains, and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.

--Arundhati Roy

Extraordinary perspectives from the Indo-Islamic Kingdom of Lucknow. Enjoy!



(Click on the images for the details.)

Olive Ayhens' paintings inspired by a nuclear power plant:

My intrepid assistant Charissa!

Estoy muy feliz que ya sé la palabra "ayuda"! (Esta palabra es una bien palabra saber.)

Cornelia Hesse-Honegger (click here)

A government run by billionaires for billionaires is an affront to freedom, morality, and humanity.

--Michael Moore