Books
Midnight Honey
by angeliska on October 22, 2009
“Gypsy Interiors is a series of portraits capturing the private world of these outwardly loud, vivacious people. Here he finds a rich and profound intimacy, hidden but exhibited among antique furniture, tapestries, paintings, religious images, china, staircases and mirrors, set (…)
Hurricane Katrina: Four Years Later
by angeliska on August 29, 2009
A hard day, full of painful remembrances and revelations. I wake in a panic, the dogs are barking wildly and I twist my shoulder in my haste to rise, my body not as awake as my mind. Head pounding, worried (…)
Late Night
by angeliska on April 3, 2009
I had a late night earlier this week, stayed up painting, pushing it all to the wall in order to have it done by morning. You reach the state of mind, alone in the studio, where time stops. It reverses (…)
Chinatown + Forest-Spirits
by angeliska on November 21, 2008
Returning home as always is bittersweet, and voyages are rarely long enough. Oh we tried, valiantly, to cram as much into every day (and night) as we possibly could- but still, the list was far too long! It was a (…)
The Barbary Coast
by angeliska on November 9, 2008
On Tuesday, my sweetheart and my grandfather and I are going to San Francisco for a week! It’s strange to think that it has been nearly a year since I visited San Francisco! So much has happened in that time, (…)
Hot Pursuits
by angeliska on July 17, 2008
Texan summertime truly encourages innovation in the realms of refreshment and distraction- Anything to take your mind off your parched throat, and the rivulets of sweat dripping down every limb.. Thus, fancy sodas, frivolous frocks, and every night a cabaret, (…)
Take a walk with me..
by angeliska on May 12, 2008
This is the face of an accomplished woman. My wee jaunt to Indiana was no mere pleasure trip- (though lovely and lackadaisical in the the extreme it was indeed) the journey was occasioned by the graduation of one of my (…)
Indianana
by angeliska on May 5, 2008
Time-machine transmogrification and too little sleep take me somewhere I’ve never been before, I fall asleep in one city and awaken in another. I finally get to visit Casa Francesca, a magical abode stuffed with wonderful books, and nooks and (…)
Powerful Ophelias
by angeliska on August 10, 2007
Somehow an entire month disappeared in the space of an hour, the longest minute where everything changed for my dearest girlhood companion- my poppy pomegranate princess, dew-drop hummingbird heart- as soon as I heard the news, my heart stopped, it (…)
O Mais Ko Aprilis
by angeliska on April 9, 2007
all I want is to be writing and it goes something like… once that wish did land-like a star in my hand- it burned and it burned and it burrowed in- soar through the source searching- hammer and ping-and tapped (…)
