Midges
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Thousands of little black midges
cling to my screens,
tiny black dots against the summer light, fleeting visitors with brief lives,
arriving in late May,
departing in early June.
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They hold on tight,
fragile legs grasping mesh, resisting the whisper of the wind, afraid to be carried away.
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Why do they hold on?
Wouldn’t it be better to let go? To dance with the breeze,
to embrace the sky,
to live fully, if only for a moment?
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Yet, in their fragile stillness,
perhaps they find a different kind of peace, a quiet perseverance,
in the face of their short existence,
a lesson in holding on,
when the world insists on letting go.
~ Noelle Keach
Erin Calamari-Kirwan
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Meet the Creators
Noelle Keach
Noelle Keach is a lifelong lover of the visual arts. She has taken numerous courses throughout her life in drawing, painting, photography, architecture, and ceramics. She is the co-owner of MustArt Studios with her mother, Patricia Gray-Feidt, which has recently relocated to Ipswich, Massachusetts.
Erin Calamari-Kirwan
Erin Calamari-Kirwan is a Boston-area artist, photographer, and educator. She finds beauty in the world around her and uses art as a form of expression, communication, mindfulness and play. Although her diverse body of work spans multiple mediums and themes, the commonalities are clear. Erin often experiments with color, mark and composition to develop unique perspectives and visual narratives. Her acrylic paintings, in particular her landscapes, demonstrate a fascination with color harmonies and the connection they have to the human psyche. When painting, Erin often flirts with the overly representational and the abstract, choosing specific areas to simplify and make ambiguous, leaving moments for the viewer to create their own connections and assumptions about the space depicted.