Penny Cagney photo by R.R. Jones 2024 At 69, Penny Cagney is working with a new device created by a group of scientists at Arizona State University, including Nobel Laureate Frank Wilczek and Prof. Nathan Newman. The technology is called the HyLighter, and it uses 13 programmable monochromatic light beams to simulate how color is perceived across different species and visual systems. She's exploring the science of color and vision, creating oil paintings designed specifically

“Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?” ~ Paul Gauguin "I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best."  ~Frida Kahlo   NOTE: This essay is about Tony Pinto’s brilliantly conceived and curated “Self/not Selfie” exhibition currently at the Golden West College Gallery. As its name indicates, the exhibition focuses on artists’ private images of themselves (i.e., self-portraits)—not on contemporary Smartphone photographs

Softness as a weapon. That's the fire. Juniper Sikora, Experiment Artist, working with activated biofilm, 60cm x 90cm, 2025, Photo credit: artist At 54, Juniper Sikora is obsessed with bioplastics, oysters, memory foam faces—materials that hold memory, resilience, and fragility all at once. She's embedding frequency, RFID, and AI into sensory works that whisper rather than shout, but still change the room they enter. It's that delicious tension between tenderness and power th