Ain’t nothinn like getting the 25th anniversary issue of BUST Magazine in the mail and thinking on all the amazing work Laurie Henzel & Emily Rems have done throughout the years.
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In one of those episodes of Psychic Friends Network, a little over a year ago I started saying, “I really want to write for BUST!” Then, a couple of weeks later Laurie hit me up with a plum assignment and we kept it moving from there.
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Needless to say, I was thrilled to write a piece for the new issue on Hilma af Klint, the European painter whose abstract work predates that of Kandinsky et al. But she kept it under wraps throughout her life – and following her death as The High Masters advised.
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The spirits understood the world as not ready for a woman to bring this to the world, and it is only now that historians are beginning to page through some 26,000 pages of notes and 1,200 works of art from this secret series.
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What most touches me is the message that she brings to us: the resolution of contradiction and conflict through the understanding that life is an ever shifting balance of complements.
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