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The Best of Mad Swirl : 09.13.14
”What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible.” Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach••• The Mad Gallery •••This month we are extra excited to show you some old photographs we found while sifting in our...
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The Best of Mad Swirl : 09.20.14
”I'm alive today, therefore I'm just as much a part of our time as everybody else. The times will just have to enlarge themselves to make room for me, won't they, and for everybody else.” Stevie...
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The Best of Mad Swirl : 09.27.14
”We only understand that which already is within us.” Henri Frederic Amiel••• The Mad Gallery •••Photo (above) by featured artist Rosie Lindsey. To see more Mad works from Rosie, and our other...
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The Best of Mad Swirl : 10.04.14
”Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this...
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The Best of Mad Swirl : 10.11.14
"Artistically I am still a child with a whole life ahead of me to discover and create." Alberto Giacometti••• The Mad Gallery •••Photo (above) by featured artist Rosie Lindsey. To see more Mad works...
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The Best of Mad Swirl : 10.18.14
"What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers." Logan Pearsall Smith••• The Mad Gallery •••Photo (above) by featured artist Rosie Lindsey. To see more Mad works from Rosie, and...
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The Best of Mad Swirl : 10.25.14
"Everything you can imagine is real." Pablo Picasso••• The Mad Gallery •••Our newest featured artist, Toby Oggenfuss, brought us some work all the way from space - er, I mean from Los Angeles,...
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The Best of Mad Swirl : 11.01.14
"'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know." John Keats••• The Mad Gallery •••Photo (above) by featured artist Toby Oggenfuss. To see more Mad works from...
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The Best of Mad Swirl : 11.08.14
"Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears." Albert Camus••• The Mad Gallery •••Photo (above) by featured artist Toby Oggenfuss. To see more Mad works from Toby, and our other contributing...
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The Best of Mad Swirl : 11.15.14
"To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage." Georgia O'Keeffe••• The Mad Gallery •••Photo (above) by featured artist Toby Oggenfuss. To see more Mad works from Toby, and our other...
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The Best of Mad Swirl : 11.22.14
"Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason." Andre Gide••• The Mad Gallery •••Photo (above) by featured artist Toby Oggenfuss. To see more Mad works from Toby,...
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The Best of Mad Swirl : 11.29.14
"Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling." Madeleine L'Engle••• The Mad Gallery •••Photo (above) by featured artist...
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The Best of Mad Swirl : 12.06.14
"What I am really concerned about is what art is supposed to be - and can become." Bruce Nauman••• The Mad Gallery •••Photo (above) by featured artist Toby Oggenfuss. To see more Mad works from Toby,...
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The Best of Mad Swirl : 12.13.14
"Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificence." Emily Carr••• The Mad Gallery •••“Dinged yet unperturbed. Well, maybe just a bit” (above) by featured artist Gerard Bendiks. To...
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The Best of Mad Swirl : 12.20.14
"I try and write honestly about what I see around me now." Billy Bragg••• The Mad Gallery •••“Walking around the buzz with the neighborhood” (above) by featured artist Gerard Bendiks. To see more Mad...
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The Best of Mad Swirl : 12.27.14
"I am happy to have some friends here in the kitchen." Charles Olson••• The Mad Gallery •••“Ministerio de Minestrone Mysterioso” (above) by featured artist Gerard Bendiks. To see more Mad works from...
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The Best of Mad Swirl : 01.03.15
"You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have." J. R. R. Tolkien••• The Mad Gallery •••“The Lady Behind You Is Not Amused” (above) by featured artist...
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The Best of Mad Swirl : 01.10.15
"I'm saying look, here they come, pay attention. Let your eyes transform what appears ordinary, commonplace, into what it is, a moment in time, an observed fragment of eternity." Philip Levine••• The...
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The Best of Mad Swirl : 01.17.15
"What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough; for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams." Pedro Calderon de la...
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The Best of Mad Swirl : 01.24.15
"“Imagination... its limits are only those of the mind itself.”" Rod Serling••• The Mad Gallery •••“No Strings Attached” (above) by featured artist William Zuback. To see more Mad works from William,...
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