It has to do with the way we imagine memory and animate the inert. Eleanor Munro 's chronicle of the struggle of Penelope Jencks to sculpt Eleanor Roosevelt is at once a parabolic demonstration of that struggle. R. D. Skillings , in high style and exquisite prose, provides a detailed word portrait of the extraordinary '60s, also the subject of Molly Malone Cook 's photographic album. Another miracle of survival through sharing is the Castle Hill Center for the Arts , for a quarter-century a beehive of creative activity in tiny Truro. In an age of personalities packaged for mass consumption, the performance artist seeks to unwrap the individual.
Performance art is a postmodern form of primitive storytelling.
Karen Finley declares that what she does is not acting but ceremony. Often, when a single person enthralls a group, it is because the group has inspired the performer, and so what is special about performance art is less the performance or the art and more the vitality of the relationship between performer and audience. This year a small staff was created, and it was fitting that Ewa Nogiec, who has been associated with the magazine since our first appearance as a 24-page tabloid in 1985, assumed responsibility for design and production. An annual magazine is a history of habits and a pattern of energy, leaving a record that can be read like tree rings. Here, on the end of a spiral of sea-borne sand, curling back upon itself as it expands, we exist.