Dew Glow

Aimée van Drimmelen is a multidisciplinary artist, musician, and arts programmer based in Victoria, B.C. Canada. Working in diverse media—from painting and drawing to film, sound, and animation—her work explores rhythms of the natural world, interconnection, and what lies beyond.

For her Zócalo Sketchbook, van Drimmelen combined the look of watercolor painting, woodcuts, crayon etchings, and fabric painting. Remixing them into her own brand of illustrative digital magic, she’s immortalized for us a northern flicker, a starling, sword ferns, broad-leaf maple seeds turned into weird moths, and Strobilurus trullisatus—a tiny mushroom …

The Magic of Squeezing Water Out of the Sky

A Hundred Years Ago, Charles Hatfield Cashed in on America’s Weakness for Quick Fixes—Even if They Seem Too Good to Be True

In the 1956 film The Rainmaker, a slick-talking stranger played by Burt Lancaster shows up in a drought-stricken town. Clad in a black cowboy hat and red neckerchief, he woos …