Are we there yet?
Yellowstone National Park is in north western Wyoming. I visited in 1995, and was fascinated by Old Faithful [...]
I haven't done much with the photos I took last fall on a road trip from LA to upstate NY and back. One thing I did this trip was take exterior and interior shots of the motel rooms. [...]
I circumnavigated the edge of the 48 contiguous US states in 2014. Out of this came a series of altered photographs. [...]
1982. We car camped on the beach for three weeks on a narrow spit of land between the gulf and a lagoon. [...]
The purple silk satin originated from a dressmaking commission, a prom dress for Nola. [...]
I started the Jam Portraits series after my dad passed away in March 1996. I was in residency at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and had a half-finished jar of jam that he and my mom had made. I then painted after every serving on my daily breakfast toast. [...]
In 2014, I did a very long road trip, circumnavigating the contiguous US. I crowdfunded the journey, and one of the rewards was an 8x5" ink sketch, drawn from life. I ended up mostly sketching breakfasts! [...]
Howard Russell Butler is my Great Great Uncle. I never met him, but he is a huge influence on my art. [...]
The striped fabric started out as lounge pants that I wore almost every day during COVID quarantine. [...]
Larry was a dear friend who passed away from COVID in July, 2020. In 2012, I helped him consolidate his huge collection of vintage textiles and garments. [...]
Poesia has a very complicated back story. Notice I used some of the same scraps used in the first weaving. Where did these originate? [...]
This month, I will be blogging my way through the alphabet, as part of the Blogging from A to Z Challenge. With each letter, I am going to feature something about my art work. Today is Arizona day (because AZ, get it?). [...]
October, 1994. I'd been driving solo for four days from upstate New York. I was in northern Arizona, on I-40, and decided to detour up to Las Vegas and rendezvous with my pal Ann. US 93 is an extremely deserted stretch of highway. It runs from Williams to Las Vegas. You see a sign: "No services for 70 miles" [estimate, don't know exact amount] Hoover Dam is at the northern end, but I wasn't there yet. [...]
In 2008-2011, I sketched my tubes of oil paint. This was my first, the Cadmium Orange: [link to art] Two years later, I sketched it a second time: [link to art] I got the idea, from Esperanza Deese, to photograph the framed piece with art supplies. And then I thought, how about with the actual tubes of paint? Easier as a concept than reality, I had to find the paints. . Not an easy mission. . Two weeks later, they were finally located. I had stored them in the garage after a workshop with Rebecca Campbell. In 2013. The cadmium orange was in a ziplock, I had lost the cap. (no photo in ziplock, [...]
