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Who says?
A bit over a year ago, I was feeling disheartened. Not about external events, but because I had been working really hard, and very consistently, but it didn’t feel like I was…
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The simple job
The new people have arrived! This group of new laser cut silhouettes includes my father, my daughter, one of my nieces, Lincoln, Syrian refugees, Hitler, and orthodox Jewish boys in NY in…
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The instrument
Did you feel like your connections with others were heightened this week? Amidst the chaos and concern over changes in our government and their effects, I kept having these great and powerful…
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I bet you can
I bet you can guess who this is. Yup, it’s Harriet Tubman. I’ve been doing a lot of taking this… And making it this. Along the way, it’s been hard not to…
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Step
I bit the bullet and dove into my computer-based work this week, sourcing public domain images from the Library of Congress and starting to process them in Photoshop and Illustrator so I…
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No other
”An optimist isn’t necessarily a blithe, slightly sappy whistler in the dark of our time. To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact…
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Easy chairs
This past Monday I finally got the last of the furniture I was selling out of my studio. The last items were two arm chairs that had been blocking that big doorway…
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The single candle
Are you in search of a sonically damaging drawing experience? I have the perfect materials for you! This week I embarked on testing surfaces for my new Cultivate pieces. They’re currently on…
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Not fast
Restriction. Pressure. Those words sound so negative. But if you’re pushing against something and suddenly take that thing away…well, we all know what happens. I didn’t fall on my face, but a…
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Where was I?
After taking an accidental blog vacation for two weeks, thanks to both positive (familial) and negative (server fail) situations, this week I conducted an extensive experiment into what you can screw up…
