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    THE FEMALE GAZE: How a West Virginia Artist Captured 100 Badass Women

    Overwhelmed by the headlines, by Donald Trump, by a pandemic and with winter coming, West Virginia artist Sassa Wilkes couldn't get herself to her easel. Then, RBG died and Sassa found she wanted to get to know the legal legend by painting her portrait. Then, she kept on going with 99 more portraits of badass women.

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    VIDEO: The Artist’s Work Considered As a Moving Picture Show

    haron Lyn Stackpole's art considered as a video: "I always had a female character in my drawings either in illustration form or comic and I'd have her acting out whatever I was also living in my drawings. For some reason, this was reassuring and helped me to feel less alone."

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    The Cloud Painter and the Berlin Musician

    Robert Singleton had settled on painting clouds. Then, he stopped, hollowed out by too many deaths helping dying friends from his training with Elizabeth Kubler-Ross. One day, a German musician stumbled on his site. And everything changed.

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    A surprise encounter with a shrunken replica of the Vietnam War Memorial

    What happens when you shrink Maya Lin's Vietnam War Memorial down to a third its size, making a replica featuring all 57,661 names and then ship the thing across the country and bolt it together, say, one day beside the Ohio River? Oddly, the exact same thing that happens with the real thing in Washington, D.C.

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Welcome to the portfolio site of The StoryIsTheThing, a multimedia craft production shop based in West Virginia. The site features essays, photo-essays, short & long-form video, music , poetry & more. The site is a production of writer, editor & multimedia producer Douglas John Imbrogno. Our companion site is WestVirginiaVille.com REACH ME via the Contact page or email: douglasjohnmartin AT icloud.com

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