Isn’t it amazing? So many moving parts. So strangely fluttery under water, alien even in its own home…an elegant armored spaceship. And always so (sadly) dead when I find them on the beach. A student of mine made an absolutely … Continue reading i’m thinking about this shape…
I’m so excited that my poem “Wallflower (For Eva Hesse)” is up today in What Weekly, and specifically, in the very first installment of its new “What Lit” section. What Weekly is a supercool online magazine that’s “documenting the Baltimore … Continue reading inspiration for a wallflower…
I do love haikus. Here’s a shot of the first five days of my Baltimore Fun-A-Day project, for which I’m writing a haiku about something that happens each day, and then attempting to illustrate it. (Emphasis on the attempting.) At … Continue reading 17 syllables of awesome…
Just a quickie post today, as I (and the rest of the world) recover from the holidays and all that, to give a shout out to Fun-A-Day Baltimore. Yeah! Fun-A-Day means spending each day of January doing something awesome. That … Continue reading gee, i love fun-a-day…
It’s often hard to stay focused these days. It’s like there’s a constant gravitational pull from all the important satellites in my life — family, work, creative impulse. I’m thinking someone needs to invent a time machine, stat. Or some … Continue reading a decade of book-y goodness…
I know, I can’t quite believe it either. After more than a year of building/writing/sewing, and more than a year before that conceptualizing, I’m finally finished my third and final Tin Drum-inspired poem doll, Oskar. View all three poem dolls … Continue reading tin drum update: the trio is complete…
Our little art group met again recently, and what a fun time we had with this quarter’s theme: Vertigo. We all absolutely love this Hitchcock film, and as expected, it served as a well of inspiration to all. There were … Continue reading tyvek and vertigo…
I’m a little behind on posting my big news, and I could easily blame “Life” or projects, or whatever. But superstition is a better reason, I think, since I hate to think of jinxing things, and it sounds cute and … Continue reading b is for “blown away”…
Sometimes it’s nice to have a good reason to make something. So, when my friend John pointed me in the direction of an artful letters campaign, I knew I had to join in. The purpose is to create artistic letters … Continue reading art-full letters…
I get this question a lot: As a maker of books, how do I feel about e-readers? Ask my heart, and she will enthusiastically answer “BOOKS!” Ask my brain, and she will thoughtfully tell you about the time she was … Continue reading some not-so-light reading…
