David Bartholomae | The Smart Set https://www.thesmartset.com A magazine of arts & culture from Drexel University Tue, 21 May 2019 14:23:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 That Went for a Walk https://www.thesmartset.com/a-long-walk/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-long-walk https://www.thesmartset.com/a-long-walk/#respond Mon, 13 May 2019 11:30:50 +0000 https://www.thesmartset.com/?p=42275 “A line is a dot that went for a walk.” Paul Klee, the Swiss artist, is credited with saying this. I’ve not been able to track down where or when, but the phrase has traveled widely and is used in any number of exercise books for artists, catering to both children and adults. It calls […]

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]]> https://www.thesmartset.com/a-long-walk/feed/ 0 In Search of Yasuní https://www.thesmartset.com/in-search-of-yasuni/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=in-search-of-yasuni https://www.thesmartset.com/in-search-of-yasuni/#respond Mon, 20 Nov 2017 12:30:46 +0000 https://www.thesmartset.com/?p=16509 Once on the water, we could see the rainforest pushing close to the river. The town of Coca, a depot on Ecuador’s Rio Napo, was already slipping away, disappearing behind a bend. It was early morning. There had been a week of heavy rain and trees had fallen into the river as the bank washed […]

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