Creativity
Creative Process: how accidents can become art
Bringing the unintentional into light by making art of findings. I enjoy altering standard practices in essay writing, so be warned if you find yourself frustrated while following…
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Category: Visual Art
For My Kids
pink. and red birds
Also: needling noses, feeling for others, juxtapositions of color, spiritual practice, and shielding nature from unwanted gazes. I just heard an excellent spiritual practice is sitting outside for…
Culture
The Pieces You See
Yesterday, the world lost an amazing painter, David Hockney. He passed away at the age of 88. Has there ever been a painting, an illustration, or even a…
Creativity
What I know about social storytelling online
Besides writing an actual story, you know, like a book or play, there are other ways you can tell rich stories using platforms built for social media. And…
Mommess
covering: artist’s statement
I cover nature. Daily drawings are digital finger painting atop photos, and include collage-symbols made from other moments in time. These personal symbols are stored as images in…
Mommess
Hope in coping mechanisms
Today is Easter Sunday, and I’m sitting at dining table, laptop nestled among mountains of near-folded clothes, purple and white towels, and underwear. I’m also sneaking in some…
Mommess
Flip the bird like an artist
I love birds, including this one. Lately, I’ve been finding myself (and several of my friends) angry about how the world has been working. For us as individuals,…
Mommess
When you don’t have words…
say it another way. Sometimes forming essays that contain a beginning, middle, and end feels incredibly limiting, and not on target with what I’m working on… or through…
Creativity
A Visual Peace: Art as Alchemy
Creative work is alchemy. It is an honest process, that sometimes culminates something that can touch the honest places in other people too. Art, music, poetry, and stories…
History
Why try bird’s eye?
On the art & science of mapping, and our physical positioning in relationship to the places we depict. Maps may have come about, in part, to verify that…
Visual Art
Most Recent Visual Art
I make visual art on Instagram when prose just can’t hold the message.
Creativity
One-Third School, Two-Thirds Sky
I’ve had so many things on my mind lately, and much of it related to the sky: blues, clouds, galaxies, light and dark matter, and accelerating expanses. And…