December 18, 2014
From Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet, Rome, December 23, 1903, as translated by Johanna Macy in Anita Barrows in A Year with Rilke. I often […]
December 17, 2014
In 2010 I was lucky enough to participate in Phase Two of Monstress Productions experiment entitled Here & Now. I don’t remember how I received the […]
December 16, 2014
One of my first projects in graduate school found me making “prints” of my hands. I made detailed linocuts of my fingerprint pattern, digital maps of […]
December 15, 2014
Sometimes I have no idea what I am making. Today is one of those days. I look forward to ten months from now when I will […]
December 14, 2014
During the week of prep for the PRESS Calendar Release Party, right after Thanksgiving, I got sick. I’m not a very good sick person. I don’t […]
December 13, 2014
Building on yesterday’s Let yourself feel, are these words from Yann Martel’s Life of Pi. I must say a word about fear. It is life’s […]
December 12, 2014
Yesterday I had a few conversations with students and friends where each of us at one point were somewhat beating ourselves up for feeling a particular […]
December 11, 2014
As a little girl, I remember being scolded for getting lost. To this day I would argue that I was never lost, just wandering. My mother would […]
December 10, 2014
I bet you have one, probably more. Those memories that you return to for strength and encouragement. I’d like to share one of those with you […]
December 9, 2014
Running metaphors find their way into my teaching, thinking and making all the time, especially when I’ve been sick and I haven’t been able to run. […]
December 8, 2014
When I read and I come across a phrase or passage that challenges or inspires me, I record it in one of my Commonplace Books. Today […]
December 7, 2014
At my bench in my studio is a bulletin board filled with various cards and other things that inspire me. Some of these cards are over 10 […]
December 6, 2014
20 years ago I was preparing to move to the tiny island of St. Kitts to begin my service as a Peace Corps Volunteer. I was […]
December 5, 2014
When I was in college, I remember a conversation with a fellow art student about living in one place for the rest of his life versus […]
December 4, 2014
Today is Rainer Maria Rilke‘s birthday. I often turn to his writings, and have since college when I first read Letters to a Young Poet. Today […]
December 3, 2014
The Vandercook Universal III, the letterpress machine that is the center of my PRESS project is only as precise as the operator. It’s possible to line up […]