NOTE: This post was written quite awhile ago but it was repeatedly pushed back to make room for the New Gallery posts. The show Full is no longer up at Evoke and has been replaced by a new group show titled Decadence, which is opening tonight from 5-7 and is curated by John O’Hern. Way […]
New Gallery’s Opening Day!
Today we celebrated. We got to the gallery, the three of us, Anna, Bill and I, and set all the lights in all the rooms. And just as Bill was finishing up some wiring, before we’d had a chance to put away the tools and the bulbs, before our OPEN sign was even up, our […]
Weaving the Threads Together
The physical materials that make up these micaceous pieces include, of course, the wood and canvas of my substrate, the plasters I use to create texture. And then the grasses from this land on which I live… … and the precious mica, this “gift of the earth, gift of those who have the privilege of […]
Simply Love
Wisdom Wednesdays are usually quotes from others that I’ve found inspiring through the years. However, I just came across some writings of mine written in 1997 and in 1995 that I wanted to share.
Next I Look to the Earth
I walk on my land across the earth to the shady reaches of the land grant, banked by its wild arroyo, deep and mysterious, until recently unexplored by me. As I wander out there, alone but for my dogs, my eyes invariably fall from the expanse of sky, the sweep of mountains, to the rock […]
Celebrating the Day of My Birth
Wisdom Wednesdays are usually quotes from others that I’ve found inspiring through the years. However, I just came across some writings of mine written in 1997 and in 1995 that I wanted to share. This is the fourth of those and the first that was written in 1995 before I hemorrhaged: A Poem to Celebrate […]
I Begin With the Grasses
It’s actually hard to say where these paintings begin because they come from such a deep part of me, from a connection with and respect for this land, from the life I’ve been exploring since coming here. I am different because of this place. Perhaps the paintings begin there—in that difference. But, at least on […]