October 25, 2020 Artist Studio Visits by Chi Essary “I like making things out of trash,” says Iain Gunn of Animal Cracker Conspiracy, the award-winning San Diego puppet company. He...
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Beautiful Photo Essays of Artist Studio Visits by Chi Essary
POETIC LICENSE: James Hubbell. His Hand in Everything
March 2, 2020 The Hubbell property is a cross between a hobbit village and a dreamscape. Stairways arch around curved walls and scalloped, ribbed and asymmetrical domed ceilings meet whimsically...
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Artist Studio Visits by Chi Essary August 9, 2019 “Rock music is very limited—guitar, bass, drums, that’s about it,” says sound artist Francisco Eme, explaining why he grew tired of...
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ABOUT POETIC LICENSE: The artist studio is a sacred and personal space that the general public seldom has access to. Chi Essary documents her visits to artists’ studios in the...
Read morePOETIC LICENSE: The Elephant in the Room with Beliz Iristay
Artist Studio Visits by Chi Essary June 8, 2019 EDITOR’S NOTE: Due to the political sensitivity of this article, certain areas have been redacted, purposely misspelled, and in some places...
Read morePOETIC LICENSE: The Delicate Order of Chaos with Anne Mudge
Artist Studio Visits by Chi Essary August 13, 2018 I wandered mesmerized through what reminded me of other-worldly bacterium or lattice-like smoke puffs, softly twisting into circlets and throwing off...
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