Rebecca Cristante
Rebecca Cristante is a self-taught multidisciplinary visual artist, author, and naturalist from Decatur County,Georgia.
05/10/2026
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04/24/2026
"slow steps
Like snake slithers
then sleep.
My charcoal skin
still warm
and loosening.
I break free
(Born again.
With this new tougher skin
underneath.)"
-Rebecca Cristante
03/14/2026
I remember a time when seeing one of my paintings out in the wild meant that my discriminating gaze would lay upon some flaw that I had not noticed before, and like a historical restorator I would want to break out my little traveling case of paints and brushes and get to work on it right then and there, reminiscent of a statement some of us might remember from art history class that "art is never finished, only abandoned."
But now when this happens I am pleasantly surprised, as if seeing a friend's child who has grown several inches since our last encounter. But of course it is not the painting that has changed; it is me. Every day there is something in this world that breaks my heart just a little more than it did the day before. That is the nature of life. So the fact that after four decades of living I still have the uncanny ability to fall in love with the bloom of a flower, a sunset, or the way the foam sits just right in my coffee cup, is now what I see when I run into my own work.
What (or whom) have you fallen in love with today?
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