Produced for the Portland Museum of Art, this short documentary follows Anna Hepler as she prepares her current exhibit at the PMA, "Makeshift". First of Circa, a series celebrating the work of living artists from Maine and beyond.

Matt Bollinger talks about his work

Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
February 24 - June 17, 2012

This is the first exhibition dedicated to the symbolist landscape in Europe. Some 70 poetical and evocative paintings of nature from the period 1880–1910 will offer a new perspective on this intriguing movement.

"...Whistlings of death and circles of muffled music make this adored body rise, swell and tremble like a ghost; scarlet and black wounds open in the magnificent flesh. The actual colors of life darken, dance, and emerge around the Vision as it takes shape. And shudders arise and rumble, and the frenetic taste of these effects weighted down with the mortal whistling and raucous music that the world, far behind us, hurls at our mother of beauty, -----she backs off, she stands up. Oh! Our bones are clad with a new loving body...."

Arthur Rimbaud - Beauteous Being - Illuminations - translation by John Ashbery