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stacy j platt
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Colorado sun-worshipper, artist, writer, educator, concerned human

contributor @hyperallergic.com
author at http://www.the-space-in-between.com
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Dear god let this man cook.
April 29, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Happy thing to have learned: Ancient Greek and Roman statues of dieties were perfumed regularly to evoke a sense of a living presence amongst us mortals: www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a...
Ancient Greek and Roman Statues Were Not Only Beautiful, but Also Smelled Nice, Too
New research suggests that sculptures were perfumed with sweet-smelling fragrances such as rose and beeswax
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April 29, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Blogging again like it's 1999. On the value of returning to old work:

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The Backwards Glance
Can anything look more foreign to your eyes than yourself half of your lifetime ago?
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April 14, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Complete cloud cover during totality here in Colorado, but it cleared just afterwards
March 14, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Writing about photobooks again and it feels good! My latest is on Dylan Hausthor's What the Rain Might Bring and Pia-Paulina Guilmoth's Flowers Drink the River. Get a cuppa and read: www.the-space-in-between.com/coded-glamou...
#photobooks #photobookjousting
Coded Glamour: Dylan Hausthor's What the Rain Might Bring and Pia-Paulina Guilmoth's Flowers Drink the River
...in Hausthor and Guilmoth's 2024 separate solo publications (What the Rain Might Bring, and Flowers Drink the River, respectively) the stage resets and reorients for the two artists, who are using s...
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March 11, 2025 at 2:52 PM
February 20, 2025 at 4:59 PM
New post up over on my site, on teaching as resistance. Subscribe to get posts emailed, or to comment, or just because you like how my brain works. www.the-space-in-between.com/teaching-as-...
February 9, 2025 at 11:28 PM
In the less-evil place now. Bring on the Year of the Snake! May it drive out all the ills of the land.

Photo by French artist Alix Marie, from the body of work Sucer La Nuit.
January 30, 2025 at 1:01 AM