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Song to the Siren Linda Marrinon

SHHH … Listen! Do you hear that … silence? Wordlessly, the best art talks to us, luring those beholden to its thrall and fluent in aesthetic dialect, to be offered personal truth given by those in tune with their muse.

Linda Marrinon is profoundly shy but her work compels attention, a remarkable feat in today’s art world. Artists such as Marrinon permit their work to do all of their important interacting with the world at large and have little time for the niceties of social interaction. This is a refreshing approach in a world that’s increasingly reliant on the facile, beguiled by the landscape of social media

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