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Analysis in Ekphrastic Poetry Format: Hotel Room, Painting by Edward Hopper

Hotel Room – 1931 Tired of day and night,  swooning for each other,  chasing each other’s rays, like a dog with its tail.  Abandoned suitcases scattered the floor,  two shoes lay like dead fish,  a scarf carelessly draped upon the gaunt chair.  Stripped to the corset,  a women’s salmon pink contrasts the sea of blue […]

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Language affects the way history is written

I’ve decided to make a series of many describing the many misconceptions in art history and how it all boils down to language. This post is about the misunderstanding about wampum. It is commonly thought of as the Indigenous Americans’ past currency, even though it is actually a shell mainly used in jewelry by several

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