Making art depends upon noticing things — things about yourself, your methods, your subject matter. Sooner or later, for instance, every visual artist notices the relationship of the line to the picture’s edge. Before that moment the relationship does not exist; afterwards it’s impossible to imagine it not existing. And from that moment on every… Continue reading
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coffee and jam
My sleep has been all over the place. so I quit coffee yet again. we went to the aquarium because my oldest is turning five And I drunk a doctored cup of spicy hot chocolate to help with the (post) Coffee crud Now all i want to do is slow things down and touch the… Continue reading
learning
You can learn So much from The messy edges Don’t run from them Embrace them Let them live in the small Wind of your stomach Braiding you Back to your Ancestors Alive
the truth
I swore I would tell the truth. even if it’s hard. especially if it’s hard. so here it is… I was depressed. Anxious Sad. On. Edge. But also so happy. Overwhelmed with possibility but dragging in agency. I didn’t know it. I didn’t know that closing down and running away was just my way of… Continue reading
hello
I am picking this up again. I have no noble reason. it just feels right. I miss this as a creative outlet. it feels like I’ve sorta fallen off the face of the earth but not really. I’ve just fallen more into my life, the place I belong. I have had some… Continue reading
grandma
last year, my mom called me and told me my grandma died. only she didn’t actually say that or maybe she did. at any rate, last year my grandmother did not die. i was embarrassed and delighted that i had got it wrong. It was sad, nonetheless because my aunt B died instead and this… Continue reading
the life i already eat/remaking the narrative
“A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón I write about gaps a lot but I rarely about jumping into one.there is always a veil that I put between myself and reality as if one were… Continue reading
the good work
i finally figured out how to upload pictures onto my blog in a rationale manner. so, i am hoping that i can share more of my images here and even , ahem, make a better portfolio of my work. why am i writing about such mundane things when so much is going on here, there… Continue reading
creativity begets creativity
late last year, when i got inspired to embark on my own self-paced artist residency in motherhood, i had no idea what i was going to do. i thought for sure that i would focus on writing. i love writing. i written a ridiculous amount of essays about how i love writing, how i need… Continue reading
more than tolerance
we don’t have to understand each other completely/ to know that each of us/ is worthy of protection/& the rhythm of our own lives/ the dignity of our selves in color, in queer, in gender, in class, in body and mental abilities, in religion (or none), in water and sky… we all belong here. we… Continue reading