On a clear November morning, I was walking through the native plant garden at the Bennington Museum, and I found a mouse telling stories.
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Voice of the wild iris — in memory of Louise Glück
She wrote days on the edge of thaw. She spoke in the voices of the earliest ephemeral wildflowers. They move out of the earth in the sleet, and new petals shake in a wind as high as a mountain. And they become oracles …
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Ashley Eliza Williams explores nonhuman senses and sentience
Moths can fly in wind and rain, Ashley Eliza Williams writes, and in her painting, a ghostly form opens wings like lightening. They fan out across the night sky over the sea ...
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Malaika Ross traces ecosystems at the roots
Malaika Ross creates mixed media drawings in patterns of light and shadow inspired by microorganisms like Funneliformis mosseae — a fungus that can form relationships with plants to help them heal and grow.
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Behind the scenes with artists — #berkshireweekend
On a cool grey Saturday, MCLA invited me to talk with the artists in their fall art show, Reflecting Ecologies: Artists in Nature, as they focus in on a lacewing moth, a blown down branch, a river stone …
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Artists conjure hope and resistance — Like Magic
At Mass MoCA, a group of artists are seeking ways to grow and go on when life and health and well-being feel fragile.
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Breathing deep on mild days in late fall
On an afternoon near Halloween with a rare glimpse of sun, I went wandering on Sheep Hill. The trees were turning that silver-tawny shade of bare limbs in the late fall sun.
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Baby, this is your day — It’s time to masquerade — #berkshireweekend
When did we begin this tradition on Halloween of who do you want to be? Play, have fun, you can turn into anyone tonight — a dryad in birch bark, a unicorn, any being you can imagine …
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Calling all the monsters …
My old neighborhood magnetically attracts Trick-or-treaters, and by about 5 that afternoon people were showing up so often that I stopped trying to close the door and just sat on the porch in the sun ...
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Halloween in the Berkshires
The season of ghosts is returning — with cornfield mazes and caramel apples, and jack-o-lanterns, and candles in the dark.
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