Category: Gallery

In Yorklyn, Creativity Has a Home

Posted on by Lewis De Joseph

In Yorklyn, Creativity Has a Home Nestled in the historic mill village of Yorklyn, Delaware, the Center for the Creative Arts has served as a creative gathering place for the community for more than forty years. The nonprofit arts center offers visual and performing arts programs for people of all ages and abilities, creating a welcoming space where creativity, learning, and self-expression can thrive. From painting and photography to theater, music, and mixed media classes, the center brings together students, working artists, and curious beginners under the same roof. At the heart of the Center for the Creative Arts is

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Brick Ghosts and Iron Teeth

Posted on by Lewis De Joseph

Finding beauty, decay, and unanswered questions in Yorklyn’s ruins I visited Yorklyn De, where there are ruins and abandoned building galore to explore. Here is a place where the bones of industry still jut out from the earth like ruins of some long lost civilization. Hidden in the hills along Red Clay Creek, the village was once a thriving mill town, loud with machinery, smoke, and the constant churn of industry. Now it feels suspended somewhere between history and haunting. Brick walls crumbling and trees growing where they don’t belong. Rusted gears sleep in rooms and in fields. Empty windows

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Slimy, Scaly, and Toothy: A Visit to the Reptile House

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        Tucked in a shadowy corner of the Knoxville Zoo, the Reptile House hums with quiet tension. The darkened room with it’s warm and humid air, mimics the rainforests and deserts these creatures call home. Behind thick glass, eyes blink slowly, tongues flicker, and scales shimmer under soft lights. Each enclosure holds a different marvel. A massive snake lies coiled in the corner, its patterned body blending into the underbrush. Nearby, a large lizard rests on a branch, unmoving but alert.  But it’s not all calm—sudden movement catches the eye. A crocodile, still as a statue, explodes

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Monitcello, Slave Row Galler

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Monticello (46 of 99)

Monticello, Slave Row Gallery   I left slave row for last, as it is by nature an issue still being resolved today through the “Black Lives Matter” and similar movements.  It was easy to find a quote by Thomas Jefferson about slavery, but the point that he owned and used slavery to advance his life made that almost mute.  The quote that I’m offering from him, I think reflects more the contradiction of the time he found himself in, without excusing the way he lived.  While the Fredrick Douglass quote reflects the advancement of a people moving out of this

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