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Christiane Munkholm Is a Thing of Beauty and a Joy Forever

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The Lagoon, Venice, by Jane Peterson, 1920, Hofstra Museum of Art set on today’s Massachusetts coast

by Mary W Maxwell, LLB

I used to live in Marblehead, Massachusetts – yes, it has a large marina and oodles

of history. Quite a few houses have a “widow’s walk” on the roof, from which the poor dears could search the sea for a sighting of their missing captain.

My friend Chris, from nearby Manchester-by-the-Sea, told me she was dreaming up a newsletter that would gather together the cultural events of the north shore. (“North Shore” means north of Boston.) But then I went back to Australia, in 2018, and did not see her gob-smacking newsletter until today.

Whew!  — it is soo beautiful.  I already knew Chris was into beauty from the way she dresses. Hats.  We are talking about hats here, folks. This girl knows fashion.  If it’s winter and she’s in a wool dress, you will suddenly know the true meaning of wool.

Ah wait, there’s a bit of a cheat – she graduated from Parsons School of Design!

Here’s a painting in her newsletter, simply called “Happiness”. It’s by Nella Lush, 14” by 16”, oil and cold wax:

I’ll get back to Chris’s stunning professional life in a moment (it has nothing to do with fashion). The purpose of this article — in the time of Covid no less — is to assure anyone who has forgotten, that there is a life out there. Fine art did not die, music did not die, and the creative spirit seems to be getting more, not less, creative.

The edition of the Cape Ann newsletter that I opened today was dated April 2021. It went about asking for donations in this most discreet and charming manner:

Salvador Dali with canine companions

“Dear Readers, In the case of Dali he needed to buy plenty of dog food. In the case of COSMOS  we need to buy plenty of technology. If you enjoy our eclectic digest on the Cape Ann cultural scene – and if you want the newsletter to remain free to all individuals — kindly click the button below.  Donations of any size respectfully applied to the mission.”

None of your bleeding hearts stuff. Just the artist Chris being playful with the beyond-playful Dali. By the way, you can bid on an etching by Dali entitled El Cid, at the nearby Rockport Art place. (I’ve seen it; it looks like the real El Cid, a detour from Dali’s surreal stuff.)  Rockport Mass is a veritable artists’ colony.

And, Ms. Munkholm notes:

“Activity has started on Windhover’s outdoor stage reconstruction for their collaboration with Gloucester Stage Company.  And a summer of enchanting theater under the stars.”

“The Cape Ann COSMOS” is the name of the monthly — I shouldn’t call it a newsletter.  Here is her bio on the masthead:

“Chris sees creative culture as experiences that continue as a lifelong education. The artists teach us to see. The musicians how to hear. The dancers to move. The writers teach us how to think. But we need to show up, participate, open to the expanded visions. COSMOS wants to facilitate the channel between cultural providers and cultural receivers.”

If you don’t live near Massachusetts, you can produce a COSMOS for your region. The point is that we have to stop getting dragged down by the miserable things that have happened in this dear 21st century.  Stop buying the pessimism and grow wings!

Now for some of the background shockers. I’m not sure what “occupation” Ms Munkholm would list on, say, an application for a bank loan, but I think of her career as “intuitive scientist.”

Whilst raising her sons, she went to Tufts University to do a degree in chemistry of fluorescence. Wait, don’t touch that dial!  Chris doesn’t stand at a lab bench all day, flickering some lights.  She…um… I don’t know exactly what she does. Technically her work is called “sensor biomaterials,” but I bet she just dreams things up.

Chris is the holder of 8 US patents, and if the Cape Ann COSMOS is any indication, she has several more in her. Wait, hold off again on her resumé, please. I want to show you how “ordinary” Ms Munkholm thinks it is for a woman – I mean a person, there’s no need to belabor inclusivity in art, is there? — to lead a great life simply by letting one’s talent take over.  This is her item on American painter Jane Peterson (1876-1965):

“After graduating in 1901 [from Pratt Institute, another of Chris’s alma maters], Jane’s first job was Drawing Supervisor of Brooklyn Public Schools. She continued her own study at the Art Students League in NYC, under Frank DuMond – while saving money for the inaugural trip to Europe in 1907.   After arriving in Paris, she eventually found a mentor with the Spanish artist, Joaquin Sorolla, whose sun-drenched style inspired new brilliance in Peterson’s work and the success of her first one-woman show in 1910.  …”

The Venice picture that I (MM) used at the top of this article is from 1920, displaying Peterson’s use of the Fauvist technique, the shimmering water.  Jane went where the scenery beckoned, and later joined the circle of artists in Paris at Gertrude Stein’s salon, frequented by Matisse and Picasso. What do you think of this one?

Chris then mentions that Jane Peterson as a child would paint the beauties of nature.

“During the century of aspirational awakening, 1870-1970, many daughters needed a mother as accomplice in the new calling.  It might have been for unbridled encouragement, transportation to the train station, or a long talk with father.  But it most certainly also took the form of money needed for the first down payment on the great adventure.  Peterson’s mother found the $300 for Jane to matriculate at Pratt Institute, a tidy sum in 1897.  She was said to be very proud of her daughter and likely had the only collection of Jane’s youthful drawings of nature.”

(On Mother’s Day this year at Gumshoe News I waxed all guilty about not having thanked my Mum enough. But the Jane Peterson story brings me an even worse memory – that I never showed any appreciation to an elderly, bedridden aunt who lived with us. She had put Mum thru college in the Thirties, no questions asked. Sorry, Aunty! Forgive me.)

Chris Munkholm helps artists get their creations sold and get media attention.  It’s not always pretty water scenes, you know.  Here is Chris appreciating modern sculpture:

“MEL KENDRICK: SEEING THINGS IN THINGS.

A major traveling exhibition featuring the works of sculptor Mel Kendrick has opened at the Addison Gallery, 120 Main St Andover, which is on the pleasant campus of Phillips Academy. It includes 60 sculptures as well as a selection of tabletop sculptural sketches, prints, and photographs. The renowned artist, active since the 1970s,  has pushed the boundaries of sculpture, with numerous museums owning his work, including the Art Institute of Chicago, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Whitney. His exhibition will run through October 3, 2021. Free admission.”

Kendrick’s exhibition

The creative force knows no limit.

All right, back to the CV. Are you ready? Christiane (she’s Danish-American) has had a career in management and technology. (What?)

However, at some point she became fascinated by sea creatures.  Maybe she was out yabbying one day, I don’t know.  One result of this is that she has recently designed a large new center for marine research (and basically built it, by raising the money for it) right on the harbor in Gloucester.

For the previous six years, Ms Munkholm had been the executive director of Gloucester Marine Genomics Institute, which she helped found. Ah, genomics. But with all that, I just know her as a concerned citizen, a North Shore sophisticate, generous with her time and wit, and someone with deep appreciation of life on earth.

Oh she’s a dancer and a serious violinist too, but we won’t go into that. Es ist genug!

I saw this picture of Chris online with her caption “Headshot with an illegal amount of retouch.”  Don’t you believe it.  The photo does not even do justice.

The lady of www.capeanncosmos.com

Okay, me hearties, get going.  It’s a rainy day out? Whom cares? Start your own local collection of news about art, or just stay creative. For you, Mal Hughes on the western coast of Australia, that means doing what you’ve already done by writing up the pioneer days of your region. For Dee McLachlan in Melbourne, it means making wildlife films (interpret the “wild” in wildlife as you see fit).

Cherri Bonney in Perth, will you write another song on a “certain subject”?  Deb Hendry, please throw some Sophocles at us (in English) – there aren’t many classic scholars left, you know. Diane DeVere in Geelong, you must – I hate this word – market your magnificent paintings.

I’m serious. It will be helpful to all and therapeutic to oneself to be aware of what’s happening., in art, instead of thinking about the degrading nonsense with which we re daily deluged.

Here’s Christiane Munkholm’s “advert”:

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  2. Far be it from me to say it’s time to rejoice, but hey, I think i is time to rejoice. I think Gumshoe and others are breaking the impasse on Covid.

    A special request from the Minotaur. Would reader’s please limit today’s comments to something pleasant?

    Please let’s wait till my more maudlin article tomorrow for the whingeing to resume.

    I am so proud of Dee. And of the star of today’s article. Both of them are “competence personified.” It takes enormous work to turn out a periodical. You’d be surprised….

  5. Speaking of pleasant things …

    I was watching this on spewtube

    Turkey and the Great War – Sheikh Imran Hosein

    and the following came up as ‘recommended’ (I kid you not)

    I can see the obvious AI connection (A stands for Artificial and I stands for Intelligence – hence AI stands for Intelligence which is Artificial)

    In her introductory remarks she mentions Kinsey (Patron Saint of Orgasms) – say no more.

  6. from Book 1 of Keats’ Endymion:

    A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:
    Its loveliness increases; it will never
    Pass into nothingness; but still will keep
    A bower quiet for us, and a sleep
    Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.

    Therefore, on every morrow, are we wreathing
    A flowery band to bind us to the earth,
    Spite of despondence, of the inhuman dearth
    Of noble natures, of the gloomy days,
    Of all the unhealthy and o’er-darkened ways
    Made for our searching: yes, in spite of all,
    Some shape of beauty moves away the pall
    From our dark spirits. …

  8. My contribution to your article Mary.

    Most will not make the connection as to why I would chose this particular article re Gates and Leonardo. For those who understand and believe MKULTRA survivors stories.

    It has so much significance for me –or should I say Us the conglomerate with multiple systems that can shift frequencies and realities and travel between universes, shape shift and follow instructions–Brain wired for sound– programmed- bred—yes a part of Us is a “genius” -with superpowers–that can be activated through the EMF -by our programmers and handlers and another part of us is aligned to a higher self that works independently—and can activate our own complex adaptive systems– and draw strength and some wisdom from knowing and surviving that “abyss” the tortured space of insanity between life and death.

    For those who have some knowledge, experience, understanding of the ultimate goal of total control and dominance of the galaxy—-

    My first named alter is “little Leonardo” and as Dee can verify Leonardo da Vinci appears in many pieces of my “art work”—

    so I can see how Gates is part cyborg—are lost my own thread–anyway to enlightenment

    https://www.gatesnotes.com/Books/Leonardo-da-Vinci

    TINKER, PAINTER, SCULPTOR, GUY
    Leonardo is one of the most fascinating people ever
    Walter Isaacson’s terrific new biography sheds light on every facet of the artist’s life.
    By Bill Gates|
    May 21, 2018 4 minute read

    The text is written in Da Vinci’s famous mirror-image style, meaning that the words are supposed to be read from right to left. The words are written in an antiquated version of Italian, which is translated on touchscreens situated around the exhibit.

    The Codex Leicester primarily focuses on Da Vinci’s thoughts relating to water — tides, eddies and dams — and the relationship between the moon, the Earth, and the sun.

    • “…………..Our minds scramble as we connect the dots with the Sun’s diameter (864,000 miles) being 400 x the Moon’s diameter (2160 miles), and thus both 4000 x 63 and 64 x 666.6666. This is yet another illustration, though of enormous proportions, of V’et (???), the 400 and the Vav (?), 6, which is really just the letter Tav (?) that is spelled Tav (??) and that has a Vav (?) incorporated within it (?). The Alef (1) as always is in the center.

      It is all beginning to make sense why the resultant distance of the Sun’s diameter (864,000 miles) times 107 is the 92448000 mile radius of the Earth’s orbit around the Sun, which occurs at a speed of 107,000 KPH (66,627 MPH). The (640 x 625) = 400,000 equations sparkles to life.

      There is so much we wonder about. Like the 22,000 letters that begin with the 2nd portal at the 107,000th letter and end when Moses is retrieving the 2nd set of tablets. The total value of those 22,000 letters is 1733324 and 1733324/26 is precisely 66666.308

      It is all about the Circle of Tav (?).

      We are then shown that when we apply the 1495 total gematria of the alef-bet to the circumference (C) of a circle, the 1495-unit circumference gives us a radius of 237.9366399, which the grotto then relates to 1/42 or 238.0952381, as in the equation the Arizal taught us tracing the Israelites from Adam to the 600,000 men at the 10 Utterances……………….”

      http://kabbalahsecrets.com/chapter-xxxii-part-o-the-journey-continues-with-the-circle-of-tav-%d7%aa/

  9. It is all about the Circle of Tav (?).
    I think so or can I be so bold as to say I know so.

    From your link -crisscross 767-so pleased to get a response-thank you

    “Speaking in the proper frequency is certainly important and perhaps this is why the word emor(אמר) is found 84 times in the Torah, and in the connected Upper and Lower Names of 42 that can bring redemption (84) as Rav Brandwein explained. The fierce storm outside sends intense vibrations even deep inside the narrow crevice.”

    led me to

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bell_System_Science_Series

    The Bell System Science Series consists of nine television specials made for the AT&T Corporationthat were originally broadcast in color between 1956 and 1964. Marcel LaFollette has described them as “specials that combined clever story lines, sophisticated animation, veteran character actors, films of natural phenomena, interviews with scientists, and precise explanation of scientific and technical concepts — all in the pursuit of better public understanding of science.”[1] Geoff Alexander and Rick Prelinger have described the films as “among the best known and remembered educational films ever made, and enthroning Dr. Frank Baxter, professor at the University of Southern California, as something of a legend as the omniscient king of academic science films hosts.”[2]

    Following their television broadcast, the films were made available free of charge for classroom use. J. B. Gilbert estimated that, by the mid 1960s, the films had been watched by 5 million schoolchildren and half a million college students”; about 1600 copies of the film were ultimately distributed.[3] The films were later released on home video and DVD. Over the more than 30 years they were in popular use, Baxter biographer Eric Niderost estimates, the films were seen by some 200 million students.[4]

    Of particular interest–re your comment—-and Mary’s article—for those with time to explore

    Our Mr. Sun
    https://archive.org/details/our_mr_sun

    Alphabet Conspiracy
    https://archive.org/details/alphabet_conspiracy

    Gateways to the Mind
    by Warner Brothers

    https://archive.org/details/gateways_to_the_mind

    I have referred to this last one several times–it is I believe core to where we are now 70 years on

    Challenging to watch—due to presentation style—jump to 28 mins- this gives a lead in

    Then at –40 mins -experiments McGill University-(-Leonard Cohen took part in this- MKULTRA Mind Control)

    45 mins; Dr Wilder Penfield University -brain surgeon— conducting experiments a must watch—
    and check out the credits

    • Thank you, Diane. So far I have only watched Penfield. I think he was in on the deal with Ewan Cameron and therefore does not deserve any trust. Listen again to the alleged reports by persons when the electrode touched their brain. I suspect those reports are read by actors — though I am completely open to the possibility that they are real.

      I was under the impression that further years of science have settled on the idea that a given memory (“My 8th birthday party where the cake tumbled and the dog ate it”) is not stored in one specific place in the brain. The late Trish Fotheringham told me that a memory of a trauma could be “located” in an arm, or wherever.

      Diane, a further thought. Can you imagine Bell Science making that documentary series in order for the public to know the truth? Excuse my cynicism. And by the way, thank God for alt media.

      • Ah Mary –you helped me pick up the thread

        Then at –40 mins -experiments McGill University-(-Leonard Cohen took part in this- MKULTRA Mind Control)

        Was Leonard a “genius”- or an amazing MKULTRA phenomena

        Leonard Cohen – Show Me the Place (Official Lyric Video)


        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGvwvxA83Cs

        Leonard knew the answer to your question — all part of the plan

        • Mass mind control—just a thought Mary wonder if you watched these videos—TELE vision Proramming—frequencies—subliminal messages—

          “Following their television broadcast, the films were made available free of charge for classroom use. J. B. Gilbert estimated that, by the mid 1960s, the films had been watched by 5 million schoolchildren and half a million college students”; about 1600 copies of the film were ultimately distributed.[3] The films were later released on home video and DVD. Over the more than 30 years they were in popular use, Baxter biographer Eric Niderost estimates, the films were seen by some 200 million students.[4]”

  10. It’s driving me crazy that I can’t find time to write about Philip Allott’s book. I did say this on a previous post:

    There is a masterpiece by Philip Allott called “Eutopia: New Philosophy and New Law for a Troubled World.” The following is from page 80:

    There are six useful lessons to be learned from the human past if we choose to learn from our BETTER experience:

    There is no limit to the creativity of the human mind.
    Human society can take countless different forms.
    The human mind is capable of taking power over public power.
    The human mind is ultimately invincible in the face of public power.
    Human beings have an ultimate and unshakable personal purpose: to make a good life for themselves and their families.
    6 Human societies rise and fall by their own efforts and failings, not by any predetermined natural process.

    [The reason I can’t find the time is that we are so bogged down with horrible events to report.]

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