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    Communion & Community
    Arthur Bruso
    • Dec 27, 2021
    • 4 min

    Communion & Community

    The 2021-22 Curious Matter Holiday Installation For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them. Matthew 18:20 I DON’T WANT to hesitantly tap my elbow to yours in greeting. But I will. And I do. And I’m glad you’re here. What I’d rather do is throw my arms around you and kiss each cheek. We’ve been isolated for too long, distant for too long. Perhaps, in the past, we imagined ourselves a bit misanthropic, claiming a preference for a go
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    Ghost Box
    Arthur Bruso
    • May 28, 2021
    • 3 min

    Ghost Box

    At the turning of the millennium, we purchased the house at 272 Fifth Street from the widow Maggie Olson. Maggie’s husband Charlie had died of a heart attack and she could no longer burden the work and expense of keeping the house. Her family had decided that she should give it up after forty years. The old woman didn’t want to move after living so long in one place; there were attachments and memories to living there. But, she did like us and decided that we would take good
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    Home Altars: creating a personal refuge
    Raymond E. Mingst
    • Mar 16, 2021
    • 6 min

    Home Altars: creating a personal refuge

    Our homes have been transformed into a safety zone, a barricade, a sanctuary against a new, invisible demon that threatens our very lives.
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    Apparition
    Arthur Bruso
    • Sep 25, 2020
    • 2 min

    Apparition

    IN ANSWER TO HER PRAYERS, to understand the suffering of Christ as he was dying on the cross, St. Theresa of Avila was given the experience
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    A Flawed Trinity
    Arthur Bruso
    • Mar 28, 2020
    • 5 min

    A Flawed Trinity

    FAMILIES MAY BE BROKEN, blended, chosen; nuclear, extended and dysfunctional; happy, unhappy.
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    Into the Magic Space (Book)
    Arthur Bruso
    • Mar 28, 2020
    • 3 min

    Into the Magic Space (Book)

    Curious Matter presents Into the Magic Space by Arthur Bruso The introductory essay for each photo series: Into the Magic Space “Into the Magic Space” was the first series to develop out of Association Sublimation. I began with the idea to visually highlight associations between separate images. For example, the first piece in the series, Entropic Inertia, is comprised of three photographs. Two are interior views of a dilapidated shed, and one is the exterior. In all of these
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    Along the Nerve
    Arthur Bruso
    • Oct 11, 2019
    • 4 min

    Along the Nerve

    The most demanding part of living a lifetime as an artist is the strict discipline of forcing oneself to work steadfastly along the nerve
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    To Some Point True and Unproven
    Arthur Bruso
    • Jun 14, 2019
    • 4 min

    To Some Point True and Unproven

    Meg Atkinson and Ben Pranger, have taken up the challenge to tame space and make it a subject of their work.
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    Not Life Alone
    Arthur Bruso
    • Oct 23, 2018
    • 4 min

    Not Life Alone

    Curious Matter SEPTEMBER 30 — NOVEMBER 18, 2018 OPENING RECEPTION, OCTOBER 7, 2018, 3PM TO 6PM GLIDING o’er all, through all, Through Nature, Time, and Space, As a ship on the waters advancing, The voyage of the soul—not life alone, Death, many deaths I’ll sing. —Walt Whitman DOES THE LANDSCAPE RETAIN the impression of a traumatic event? Does an object capture the essence of its owner? Can memory and history, spirit and emotion be accessed through communion with objects and p
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