One of the reasons I am currently drawn to creating things on walls is because so much more is creatively possible. I feel my brain expanding just even thinking about walls or entire rooms vs. being limited to a traditional piece of canvas on the wall. I feel done with "the rectangle," for right now […]
This has been forming on my studio wall for a while now. It's currently a bit bigger than what's shown in this photo, but is ready for some sort of backing. Right now these half-circles from National Geographic magazines are mounted directly onto the wall. But for the purpose of installing it elsewhere, I have […]
Just about to mail this off to the Brooklyn Art Library...but thought I'd post this photo of the last page. I had to use that image of the young boys - so cute.
It takes courage to keep evolving. I was thinking about this tonight in regards to my creative path, but it can really apply to any area of life. I think as an artist, or as anyone else who has gained some level of proficiency with a skill set, learning new things feels like starting over […]
I'm currently working on a few projects that require small, daily steps. I liked this excerpt from Julia Cameron's book "The Sound of Paper," as it speaks to this reality of creative progress: "I don't know why it is that we fail to talk about art in terms of humble diligence. So much of making […]
I really enjoyed this opinion piece about the intersection between music and art. I think it applies to all creative fields, really. That's why it's so fun (and pays off) to invest in a lot of different creative forms as an artist. Something in one field will trigger something in another, and so forth. Two […]
What started as doodles the other week on my studio wall is turning into a pattern layered with meaning. It seems like a new layer of meaning comes to me each day I'm in there working on it. On one level it is a reflection of gemstones being mined from the depths of the earth. […]