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British Painter Nicola Tremain Captures Grief in Acrylic On Canvas
“Staving Off Grief” Confronts the Viewer with the Artist’s Pain After the Recent Loss of a Close FriendIn addition to being an Emmy-nominated documentary director, Nicola Tremain is a self-taught British artist producing expressive still lifes, portraits, and abstract paintings. Her works, which have earned her several top marks, awards, and a spot competing on Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year, are typically characterized by bold strokes of color and imaginative…
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Memorial Diamonds from Cremated Ashes: Keepsake or Fraud?
Lab-grown diamond companies claim to use the carbon from cremains to create memorial diamonds. Others claim it is impossible to doFor families navigating grief and end-of-life preparations, the idea of transforming a loved one’s cremation ashes into a jewel as precious as a diamond can be a source of comfort. Diamonds are valuable, tangible keepsakes that can symbolize connection and memory. Over the past two decades, companies have claimed to specialize in “cremation diamonds,” or…
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“Come See Me In The Good Light”
A film about love, cancer, death, and poetry will likely make you cry, but it is still incredibly life-affirmingThe 2025 film, “Come See Me In The Good Light,” follows poet/activist Andrea Gibson (whose pronouns are “they/them”) and their partner Megan Falley as they navigate the time Gibson had left after receiving a diagnosis of terminal ovarian cancer. One might think that a documentary about a spoken-word poet who was dying of incurable cancer…
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Deathbed Visions as Messages for the Living
The beauty and mystery of deathbed phenomena can give comfort to those left behindOnly 27 and close to death, Dan’s family anxiously surrounded his bed. Pointing towards his feet, Dan asked, “Who is that little boy at the end of my bed?” When no one else saw him, he offered a description: “A blond boy – maybe three years old.” His mother’s eyes grew big as she quickly…
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A Video Art Installation on How Even the Hardest Seasons Give Way to a New Day
Charles Atlas “Kiss the Day Goodbye” Currently on View at the Tampa Museum of ArtThe video art installation “Kiss the Day Goodbye” is by New York-based filmmaker, Charles Atlas, known for his cinematic collaborations with American dancer and choreographer Merce Cunningham. Atlas served as assistant stage manager and videographer with Cunningham’s dance company in the 1970s and 1980s and made significant contributions to “media-dance”, a form of art that…
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23 Amusing Quotes About The Nature and Inevitability of Death
Famous minds’ clever musings about deathAs the authors of these 23 Amusing Quotes About The Nature and Inevitability of Death recognized, life is better with a little entertainment. Enlist these quips to lessen the emotional burden of life’s heaviest load, the inevitability of death. While nothing completely soothes the sorrow of loss or assuages the fear of one’s own mortality,…
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