When you’ve been married as long as I have, there is a lot of knowledge about relationship and living that accrues.  One approach to life that I’ve learned from my husband is to face adversity by breaking down the problem into do-able chunks and pursuing each in

Here is my next location shot.  “Volts” is in the center of the photo, but it is surrounded by strong color and bold pattern, so that you have to walk closer to see what in the world it is.  I like that, because it holds up well under scrutiny.  It brings up

When I have the opportunity, I shall post a photo or two of my art in its new home.  Here is “Fossil Poetry” living happily on a mantle with antiques and some world art. It is so satisfying when my art moves out of my studio and into someone else’s place!  

The planet-themed tabletop is underway, and taking me a LONG TIME to mosaic.  But, how I’m loving inventing planets!  And, I listen to podcasts while I’m working, so the hours fly by.   I love RadioLab podcasts, and there are lots of them related to space in some way.

Three blogs.  Three blogs I write.  Three is too many for me, but there is good reason I have three. The first blog is this very one, started in 2009.  It is about art, or about ideas that relate to the art I make. The second blog is called The Home Archaeology Report and it

The second day of the CIVA conference brought questions- important questions- for any artist who examines cultural assumptions and calls them ‘lies’.  An artist who believes that a personality underlying the universe, both re-creating and re-newing it, is both

A big part of the CIVA conference, entitled JUSTart,  for me, was lying in a gulley, in the rain of a thousand different ways of recognizing injustice and responding to it, and not drowning.   After spending the day drawing from life, then attending the juried CIVA show

My days at the CIVA conference were a banquet at an overflowing table. The first day was a figure drawing workshop with Ed Knippers.  One female model in the morning, a male model in the afternoon.  During breaks, I asked each about their experiences as professional models.  This

Yes, the spiky things arrived in Wheaton for the CIVA show, unharmed.  Some saint in the art department uncrated them and hung them on the gallery wall.  You can spot two of them peeking through the crowd at the gallery talk by Rowley Kennerk. Now we’ll see if the spiky

The Nipper Buddy My two “trigger fingers”- swollen joints from long-term use of tile nippers- have been a problem for several years.  But now, the problem has worked its way up my arm and into my elbow. In addition to doing my e-cises, as prescribed by my Pain Free