Seven limbs, Kadampa Life
There are moments in our meditation practice where we get a glimpse of our mind’s potential. Our otherwise incessant mental chatter ceases for a while and we meet our capacity for radiant, soaring peace. We meet our Buddha nature. There is a moment in Brooklyn-based composer Douglas J. Cuomo’s recent album and performance project, Seven Limbs, that captures this moment of radiant insight. And it makes me cry every time I hear it. Read more. 

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Hollow body: ​Sacha Braunig
艺术界 LEAP Magazine

To encounter the paintings of Sascha Braunig is to be confronted with an unsettling, hypnotic world. She creates portraits of figures dissolving within their own borders, moving in and out of corporeality and bending the laws of reality. In her technically brilliant paintings, studio portraiture merges with science fiction, and patterns merge into the skin of humanoid beings that seem to be either swallowed up by — or born out of — digital networks. Read more. 

Envisioning another world: Maine Magazine

Olympia Snowe is one of the most admired politicians in American history. She was the first woman to serve in both houses of a state legislature and both houses of Congress, and in 1978 at the age of 31, she was—at the time—the youngest Republican woman ever elected to Congress. She has blazed trails for countless women and acted as a role model of bipartisan leadership.
What is perhaps less well known is the adversity she faced while growing up in Lewiston. Hit by a series of tragedies, she learned not only how to keep pursuing her goals, but also to thrive. Snowe has returned to Maine with the Olympia Snowe Women’s Leadership Institute, inspiring a generation of high-school girls to follow their own paths— and imagine a future far bigger than they ever thought possible. Read more. 

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Origin story 
Maine Arts Journal

​It begins, of course, with the fact that there is no beginning. There is no true origin or starting point. There are only circles and the stories we tell ourselves. The way we impute beginning, middle, and end, on snatches of our perceived reality. ​

If you walk behind a row of semi-detached houses in Blackburn, Lancashire, you’ll find the forest where I played every summer of my youth. I was born in this rural patch of northwest England and would have grown up here, if it were not for my father. One day while working as an architect for the local council, he spotted an advert for a job in the Architectural Services Division of the British Colonial Government of Hong Kong. Read more

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Putting it in ink: Sarah Baldwin's self-alteration
The Chart

When I first looked at Sarah Baldwin’s ink works — in a Portland teahouse in the depths of winter — it felt like I had momentarily returned to Hong Kong, staring at the cosmic creations of ink painters like Wucius Wong. Baldwin is a Biddeford-based artist whose abstract works carry undercurrents of nature, impermanence, storytelling, and hyperreality. This week, she is opening an ambitious multimedia exhibition she curated, called Influx, in the former textile mills in Biddeford. Read more.