FIELD NOTES
Field Notes are occasional reflections from the studio—observations about making, seeing, and the quiet discoveries that continue to reveal themselves over time. I write about the ideas, processes, and recurring questions that shape my work. They are less about arriving at answers and more about paying attention to where the questions lead.
For A New Beginning
Today I began what will be a self-designed and self-paced equivalent of the MFA program I had been accepted in, but that I was unable to participate in due to a number of events that led my life down a different, but wonderful path…
On Translation
Years ago, during some post-graduate studies, I created a collage. That small collage became an enameled piece. The enameled piece then became a small weaving. What surprised me was that each translation was successful in its own way. The materials changed completely, yet something essential remained intact…
On Contrast
I’ve been thinking about contrast.
Not as something to resolve, but something to live inside.
Listening to John O'Donohue, I‘ve been struck by the idea that opposites aren’t meant to cancel each other out…
One Artist’s Ongoing War Against Horticultural Tyranny
People often imagine that an artist's greatest challenges happen in the studio…
…What they don't know is that many artists also wage entirely different battles once they step outside the studio door…
“Wherever you go, there you are…”
No matter where you go, no matter how romantic or exotic the location that surrounds you, there is always laundry to do.
I’ve recently returned from a wonderful trip through the Mediterranean…
Thresholds
I’m drawn to thresholds.
Not dramatic ones.
Not grand arrivals.
The quieter kind.
The almost invisible crossings that happen internally before anything changes outwardly at all…
