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Dark Mountain 2

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image Rima Staines http://intothehermitage.blogspot.com/

Cover Illustration by Rima Staines

The Dark Mountain 2 anthology is out! Follow the link to the announcement on their site.

I’m deeply honored to have a chapter from my novel, Something for Nothing included along with this incredible list of poets, writers, and thinkers.

Naomi Klein, David Abram, Vinay Gupta, Paul Kingsnorth, Glyn Hughes, Luanne Armstrong, Charles Hugh Smith, Wilfried Hou Je Bek, Venkatesh Rao, Warren Draper, Darren Allen, Catherine Lupton, Tom Keyes, Jay Griffiths, Melanie Challenger, Nick Hunt, William Haas, Simon Lys, Albert Pierce Bales, Antony Lioi, Em Strang, Joel Moore, Mario Petrucci, Adrienne Odasso, Robert Walker, Benjamin Morris, Stephen Wheeler, Andrea Dulberger, Heathcote Williams, Gerry Loose, and Dougald Hine.

My apologies to anyone whose web presence I’ve garbled – please set me straight if you can! Also links for the ones I couldn’t find.

My Entry in the PAAM 12 x 12 Show

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The Provincetown Art Association and Museum holds an annual Members Show. Members submit a single work on a 12″ x 12″ Masonite panel. There is a silent auction of the works for the duration of the show with bidding starting at $125. Forty percent goes to support the Museum.

My entry this year is this still life, Amaryllis.

Light on Canvas, Antonio Dias Art

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I’m always updating, and adding old and new work. I hope you’ll check in from time to time….

Steaming the Garboards, Progress on the Martha’s Vineyard Catboat

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Reflection on the Dark Mountain

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I went to the Dark Mountain, the home of Uncivilization, and found a living culture. I didn’t know that’s what I would find, my hopes tied up and caught up in theoretical frameworks positing the likelihood of just such a thing. The flimsiness of my previous scope of interaction having been overcompensated by mental calculations carefully assembled as if in a geometric proof, as if by reading the perturbations of the orbits of the visible planets I could intuit the existence of another beyond the range of my senses. Yet that is what I found. I’m not only grateful, but moved by the breadth and depth of what I found. Not what, but who.

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