Letter from the Editor
By Kristen Sztyndor There are two views to dealing with fear. Fear can be your friend or fear can be your enemy. Either position an artist takes effects their creations, their relationships, and their lifestyle. It’s not fear itself that can hold you back, however, it’s your relationship with fear that can do so. For an artist, when fear is your antagonist, it can cause resistance. Fear can become insurmountable and envelop your ability to progress; to become dynamic and challenge yourself. Every painter, photographer, writer, musician, and sculptor can identify with this resistance....
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This is Grinds third month being public. Public Art? You may find this statement to be an oxymoron. Art is stereotypically thought of as private and the artist portrayed as lonely. But when seen from the artists’ perspective, the creative process unveils the truth that it takes a village to raise an artist. Warwick has been doing just this. With the weekly concert series featuring musicians in the summer, to the shops featuring local artwork, Warwick has put itself on the map in Hudson Valley as being one of the most progressive and artistic towns. Is this a well known fact to those...
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Independence. It’s something that breaks us apart while making us whole. Through this separation, we define ourselves by gaining the power of personal conviction and outside perspective needed to break away. But what we realize after creating this distinguished space is that this process connects us all. For artists, this is a necessity. This transformation takes place within their work, making these universal truths naked and exposed for all to feel. Real art–true art understands this process, respects the freedom and lives in the faith that his/her talent can...
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So here I am in Colorado. After a weeks worth of road tripping, I made it. In this new environment enveloped in new surroundings and experiences, I can’t help but appreciate the natural process of creative expression and how essential it is to human life. To have this ability and to express it freely and willingly at our own command is something that we as a community should not take for granted. It’s easy to get caught in between the New York City suburbanite fast pace and the care free, yet distractable energy of country life. By finding the balance and gaining some perspective,...
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People lately have been asking me, “What is Grinds? What does it stand for?” More often than not, I start off by explaining the local arts community within Warwick: the juxtaposition of being small-town metro by finding the balance of adhering to our traditions and embracing progressive movement; and how this manifested a level of depth within the creative expression of the residents within our community, drawing in others not only from the Hudson Valley, but from the heart of Manhattan as well. Warwick is consistently in motion, dynamic and in need of a publication platform that...
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