Best of Mommess
Artist’s Confidential
AKA pulling apart a piece of art, with some web-weaving via inappropriate footnoting. This entire piece is about a rapidly made Instagram reel (with high hopes of it…
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Family
Naming, Angels, and Missing Sisters
Can anyone truly see what’s missing? It’s a paradoxical view. What’s in a name? One of my teachers told me folks with the last name DeAngelis or DiPrete…
Mommess
What makes any given website run
I just had to explain this to a client. I figure you may need to know this too if you have a domain name and website hosting and…
Coaching
project project & on demand on you
This is about putting the marketing cart before the horse with Human Design, and it apparently working.1 Oh yes, and moonlighting…And examining why anyone would put pressure on…
Family
Gail Force
Gail lived with us for several months when I was five years old. Gail was 15 years old at the time, an avid 1970s free spirit, a pot…
Creativity
Titles First (and foremost?)
I saw a delightful and giddily relaxed David Bowie1 in an old video clip saying something so true: artists are more comfortable describing their process than what things…
Mommess
Skipping Stones
This is shear poetrytransparent like the way I express myself these daysand try to hear you too. Transparency means invisible. This is good on one level, perhaps not…
Mommess
State the thing | Stare at the thing | Stair the thing
How positively-framed statements make matter & how to serve wisely within your own makers way. After Tim Snyder wrote a book On Tyranny1, he wrote On Freedom2. I…
Creativity
The Mess
I love my mess. Truly. Just like I loved it in my old Dodge Aspen with cigarette butts falling out of the ashtray onto cassette carriers filled with…
Family
A Burning Bridge to Now-here
My favorite candle sits on my dining room table. It’s inside opaque black glass and sits on its own wooden cover like a little pedestal. I refer to…
Creativity
Early Earnings, Archetypes, and Your Personal Way to Wealth
(with an obsessive case study in American Politics) The archetypes1 represented in your earliest “receptive” associations are a powerful way to understand and value yourself as you are…
Creativity
Through Lines, Titles, & Hiding While Seeking
Thoughts on being an artist and privacy. As an artist who expresses herself through the medium of digital construction, I’d like to introduce Mommess as a full —…