…………………………………………….(night time) When I take this piece to DC – once it’s finished – do I want people to tell me, “It’s beautiful”? When I was in art school, way back when, the ultimate (unspoken) insult was to call someone’s…

I made the smallest adjustment to this area and it delighted me: I shifted the edges. Before I took the scissors to it, there was a straight line along the bottom. Straight. The message was of the edge of a…

Do I ever notice this encasement I live inside? This thing that can produce ideas and get me from one place to another. My body. Yes, I exercise. And yes, Tai Chi and sometimes yoga. But yesterday I had the…

I’m dog sitting little Otis. Here he is with my pooch, Rumi. They get along very well. In fact, when I have to leave for an hour or so, I know Otis will be fine. He’s with Rumi. And that’s…

A close up. I now am not sure about my idea that was so thrilling yesterday. When I was “close up” to it, I was just pumped. And so full of why this was such a great idea, why hadn’t…

Art can change the world… Additionally, the experience of art distracts from daily hardships and inspires people to imagine other ways of living that are less painful…Its experience proposes a more fulfilling life. After all, joy is an inalienable human…

This is not working – I mean, my new idea is not working yet. But I want to share it anyway because I’m so excited about it. I realized that I was seeing my piece in 2D. What about the…

Silence when we let it exist it feeds our soul.~ Gordon Hempton In this piece of art that I am slowly creating, I use this method of working first on the areas where the color is moving, flowing from one…

This is another of my embroideries from years ago. Unfinished. But somehow that suits my message today. I feel like these people are all waiting with expectation that they will get somewhere. They will get there – they have faith.…

From when I was a child, growing up riding horses, the only thing I wanted to draw was a horse. I’d work on a drawing and then show it to my father. He would look at it, explain the anatomy…