From the Studio
Notes from Paula Phelan on art, books, music, history, memory, and the ideas that move between them.
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The Odyssey and the Art of Returning Home
I attempted to read The Odyssey several times over the years. Each attempt ended the same way. I would make it a hundred or two hundred pages before the book slipped from my hands...
The Odyssey and the Art of Returning Home
I attempted to read The Odyssey several times over the years. Each attempt ended the same way. I would make it a hundred or two hundred pages before the book slipped from my hands...
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Who Owns The Odyssey?
Every generation discovers a different Odyssey. That may be the secret of why Homer’s poem has remained alive for nearly three thousand years. It refuses to become a museum piece. It sails into every...
Who Owns The Odyssey?
Every generation discovers a different Odyssey. That may be the secret of why Homer’s poem has remained alive for nearly three thousand years. It refuses to become a museum piece. It sails into every...
Alternate Selves
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Doodles as Alternate Selves
The first figures did not arrive with biographies. They arrived as spontaneous doodles: a curved line, an improbable head, an extravagant bow, a pair of wings, and an elephant whose...
Doodles as Alternate Selves
The first figures did not arrive with biographies. They arrived as spontaneous doodles: a curved line, an improbable head, an extravagant bow, a pair of wings, and an elephant whose...
Word Transformation
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Natural History of Imaginary Species
CATFISH I remember the first time I saw a recently caught black catfish swimming in our kitchen sink. I was six years old and fascinated by the whiskers. The fish...
Natural History of Imaginary Species
CATFISH I remember the first time I saw a recently caught black catfish swimming in our kitchen sink. I was six years old and fascinated by the whiskers. The fish...