- Drawing My Way In: How Art Gave Me Access to Language
As a multidisciplinary artist, doing visual art helps me out of the ruts I get stuck in with long form writing. As an artist who sometimes struggles to access or enact my vision, switching from one genre to another can open locked passageways which link the creative and literal sides… Read more: Drawing My Way In: How Art Gave Me Access to Language - Sleeping Beauty Awakens
I have grappled on and off with pain for much of my life. As a teenage dancer my low back hurt me persistently and I eventually had to stop dancing altogether during college, a deep loss as I had been accepted a year early as a dancer. And so it… Read more: Sleeping Beauty Awakens - Art After Death
“Neither a garden nor a park, but a city of the dead.” – Olmstead Three times a year, before the pandemic, I visited Larry’s gravesite at Mountain View Cemetery— his birthday, the anniversary of his death, and Yom Kippur. On Saturday, April 24, 2021, Larry would have turned 68. He… Read more: Art After Death - Paper Making
The box in the shed included two paper making kits, tins and bags of outdated tea leaves, lavender stems, and rose petals, as well as a shoe box filled with the dust and shreds of a silk shade from a lampshade of my grandmother’s. Clearly, I had intended to make… Read more: Paper Making - COVID CANDLE MAKING
Having saved candle stubs for over 30 years, and carted these many canfuls through various moves, it was time to make my own candles in saved spice jars and other empty vessels. I weighted the wicks with various nuts, bolts, and small metal doodads so they’d stand straight in the… Read more: COVID CANDLE MAKING