Environmental Graffiti

Grapevine Fires: Creativity Born From Destruction

When the California wildfires struck in 2007 they shocked not just a state and a nation but the world. The facts speak for themselves: at least 1,500 homes destroyed, 500,000 acres of land burned, 9 people killed, and 85 others injured including at least 61 firefighters. Yet for all the scorching destruction they caused, the fires also proved to be the source for some fresh creative energies.

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Dementia Reorganizes Brain For Art?

Dementia is often tragic, but in a few cases, it seems, it can provide the brain with a fantastic swan song, completely reorganizing it into an artistic machine. Anne Adams’ painting of a migraine while suffering from synesthesia. From Nowpublic.com Frontotemporal dementia, paired with a phenomenon called synesthesia, is [...]

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