Tag: Eating

“Petri Dish Emotions” is a vibrant, collage-like composition that fills the frame, structured around four large circular forms resembling petri dishes or cells. Each circle contains layered spirals and fragments of cut paper—snippets of printed text with phrases such as: “A Wild Love,” “connect,” “research,” “deep time”, and organic shapes—arranged in swirling motions. The background is densely textured with crayon or pastel marks in green, yellow, pink, and blue, creating a sense of energetic movement between the circles. Smaller circular cutouts scatter across the surface, especially in the lower right, adding rhythm and variation. The overall effect is playful yet intricate, evoking microscopic life, growth, and interconnected systems.

“Petri Dish Emotions” & “Eating Emotions” * Art & Poetry * Janina Aza Karpinska

aromatica poetica April 3, 2026

Note from the author to the editor: I had in mind that I might send you “Eating Emotions,” originally published in Magma 85—a schools edition, but reworked since looking at it again. This morning when I lifted my head I noticed a piece of artwork I’d made, Petri Dish Emotions, that held my eye in a way that only made sense later in the day when I saw a short video clip of a TED talk by Brené Brown and …

Layered collage of Colonial Williamsburg photographs (featured below) of taverns and dishes in different opacities.

“Eating Up History in Colonial Williamsburg” * Essay * Kate Chamberlin

aromatica poetica July 2, 2020

For three days in 1999,we walked and ate our way through Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia! We Stepped back into the 18th Century, an era when our forefathers were on the cusp of revolution. We walked the paths and ate in the taverns where the American Revolution began and our new nation was born. Colonial Williamsburg is In the center of one of America’s most historic triangles. just southwest is Jamestown, where English colonization took root in 1607; southeast is Yorktown, …