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 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 […]
December 1, 2014
Start anyway. What do you want to begin? What stands between you and whatever that is? When I think of this phrase, I think of my […]
November 22, 2014
In a little over a week, I will begin my third annual daily Advent practice where I make a 5×5 inch collage and then write a […]
December 22, 2013
I return to the Metta prayer regularly: May I be free from danger. May I have physical happiness. May I have mental happiness. May I have […]
December 25, 2012
Merry Christmas, thank you for checking out my daily journey through this season of anticipation. I take away the importance of practice from these 25 days […]
December 24, 2012
Today is my sister’s birthday, Happy Birthday Missy! Oh, and Christmas Eve and the night before Christmas. Growing up we split the day, celebrating my sister […]
December 23, 2012
Vibrant, electric, tangerine transformed my little girl legs into magic. Or something, and I wanted to put on those orange pants everyday when I was small. […]
December 22, 2012
Be the change you wish to see in the world, is a widely shared and proclaimed quote attributed to Gandhi, and one that I keep in […]
December 21, 2012
Be still and know that I am God — Psalm 46:10 This passage from Psalms keeps coming into my thoughts during these last few days of […]
December 20, 2012
I listen to books on CD when I work in my studio. Fiction, non-fiction and the occasional inspirational read. A recent book on motivation, will-power and […]
December 19, 2012
I want first of all… to be at peace with myself. I want a singleness of eye, a purity of intention, a central core to my […]
December 18, 2012
I can’t wait for Humument to come to MASS MoCA. Humument is maybe one of the most important artist books of the 20th century. Tom Phillips […]
December 17, 2012
Today I wish you Haut les coeurs! Lift up your spirit, take heart, be brave! Have courage! I love that the French word coeur is derived from the Latin word cor, as […]
December 16, 2012
The third Sunday in Advent, break out the rose colored robes and rejoice! Growing up I loved this Sunday, one of us lit the match to […]
December 14, 2012
In 2008, I spent two weeks in the Denali Wilderness as part of the National Parks Artist-in-Residence program. Doug came with me. It was just the […]