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Venus At the Checkout: First Drawing

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Venus At the Checkout. Personal Essays and Commentaries by Marcia Milner-Brage. This essay was published in the Manifest Gallery International Drawing Annual Exhibit (INDA5), Fall 2010. http:/ www.manifestgallery.org/nda/inda5/. What did a man have that a woman didn’t? Most of the time, I could recognize a man as a man and a woman as a woman. But some of the time, it was unclear. I struggled to put down what I knew about man-ness and woman-ness. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile.

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Venus At the Checkout: Out of the Cookie Jar and into the Sand

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Venus At the Checkout. Personal Essays and Commentaries by Marcia Milner-Brage. Out of the Cookie Jar and into the Sand. This follows the previous essay, "Shipwrecked".  John and I took this journey in February 2009. Ur son Ivan is now sand. Perhaps from the bridge over the Cedar River, a few blocks from our house, where bald eagles soar. Or down river, where swallows skim the water, collecting bugs. Or maybe, in our backyard garden where tombstones mark long gone pets. We have to get back.” I ...The pla...

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Venus At the Checkout: June 2010

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Venus At the Checkout. Personal Essays and Commentaries by Marcia Milner-Brage. This essay was published in the Manifest Gallery International Drawing Annual Exhibit (INDA5), Fall 2010. http:/ www.manifestgallery.org/nda/inda5/. What did a man have that a woman didn’t? Most of the time, I could recognize a man as a man and a woman as a woman. But some of the time, it was unclear. I struggled to put down what I knew about man-ness and woman-ness. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).

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Venus At the Checkout: Shipwrecked

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Venus At the Checkout. Personal Essays and Commentaries by Marcia Milner-Brage. This essay was published in "Mourning Sickness, Stories and Poems about Miscarriage, Stillbirth, and Infant Loss". My drawing, Stillbirth on Black Paper, was used as the book's cover art. Later that night, I lay on the daybed in the study. Our nurse-midwife, Nancy leaned over me. A stethoscope connected her ears to my eight-month mountainous belly. Nothing. No sound of life. Later, I wiped him dry and swaddled him, as if he w...

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Venus At the Checkout: February 2009

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Venus At the Checkout. Personal Essays and Commentaries by Marcia Milner-Brage. This was written in June 1998 and broadcast as a commentary for KUNI Iowa Public Radio.  My drawing is of my mother Betty Milner, the champ. "Betty, at the Walker 1980" is pen and ink.  I recently found it in her files. 160;I got it half price.  My shoes? 160;I left the store with the clothes I needed and a discount I was ambivalent about.  My mother left like a champ leaving the ring. Links to this post.

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Venus At the Checkout: March 2009

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Venus At the Checkout. Personal Essays and Commentaries by Marcia Milner-Brage. Out of the Cookie Jar and into the Sand. This follows the previous essay, "Shipwrecked".  John and I took this journey in February 2009. Ur son Ivan is now sand. Perhaps from the bridge over the Cedar River, a few blocks from our house, where bald eagles soar. Or down river, where swallows skim the water, collecting bugs. Or maybe, in our backyard garden where tombstones mark long gone pets. We have to get back.” I ...The pla...

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Self-Portrait with Assumption: February 2014

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Artwork by Marcia Milner-Brage. Monday, February 10, 2014. Once home, I embellished mine. I added colored pencil. I collaged in snippets cut from the slick Howard Hughes Medical Institute Bulletin,. Placing them behind and on top of the semi-translucent paper. I poked pinholes. I tore or cut the mulberry paper. I hope you enjoy this collaboration. Here are all 15 of the 2014 batch. Each original was mailed by snail mail to a special someone. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Venus at the Checkout.

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Self-Portrait with Assumption: February 2012

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Artwork by Marcia Milner-Brage. Monday, February 13, 2012. I've made valentines every year for close to 40 years. Here's this year's batch. There usually is a theme or a commonality. This year, they all use black paper, Neocolor II wax pastels, and frisket film. Some have acrylic white ink, too. All have been sent to one of my special some ones. Jump Up and Down Heart. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Venus at the Checkout. An anthology about childbirth loss with my art as the cover and one of my essays.

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Self-Portrait with Assumption: More Valentines

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Artwork by Marcia Milner-Brage. Tuesday, March 3, 2009. W hen Mary Huber, the director of the the Hearst Center for the Arts here in Cedar Falls, Iowa, saw my February 8th post, Valentines 2009, she invited me to put up a spur-of-the-moment show. . So if you weren't able to get over to the Hearst Center for the week-long duration of My Handmade Valentines, here are a few:. This was for Marjorie in 1977. Labels: hand drawn valentines. Hearst Center for the Arts. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).