Last May I took a driving trip through Andalucia with my husband. I took a lot of photos and when I got home I decided to turn them into an art journal. I’ve posted the results in a new gallery. . . . → Read More: Andalucia art journal
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A few weeks ago I started a new series of paintings based on movement and intuition. It’s a new thing for me — painting from my gut instead of my eyes and my head. The truth is I think too much and I talk too much, and so I’m trying to just shut up and [...] . . . → Read More: Adventures in Abstraction Before I moved to Berlin in 2005, I was pretty much a country & suburbs girl. I hadn’t lived in a city since I was a small child, and I thought I could never survive it. Don’t get me wrong — I love cities, when I’m visiting and can immerse myself in the music, sights, [...] . . . → Read More: Art Journaling – Dreams – City Another journal I keep going is devoted to political doodles and sketches. Here’s an entry responding to the Obama administration’s failure to honor his promises about repealing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” in the military. Every time I think about this issue, I get really angry that Republicans can continue to deny American soldiers their basic [...] . . . → Read More: Art Journaling – Political Pages – Don’t Ask & Minarets I keep several art journals going at one time. One of them is devoted to recreating the imagery and the words that appear in my dreams. This page, called “Secret Garden Heart Fire,” is the latest in the series, and comes from the repeated image of a woman standing in flames, completely calm, on fire [...] . . . → Read More: Art Journaling – Dreams – Secret Garden Heart Fire When I journal, I have about a dozen pages going at the same time. This is the first in the Poet’s Series to come to completion, based on Wallace Steven’s “The Idea of Order at Key West.” I’ve posted the poem at the end, so you can see if my image matches up in your [...] . . . → Read More: Art Journaling – Wallace Steven’s “The Idea of Order at Key West” My fine art work has been on hold recently because I’m still setting up my new studio, but I’ve been able to do quite a bit of beading and polymer clay jewelry design. (Pictures are posted at my jewelry blog site, Fresh Monsters.) I do have an idea for a new multimedia series based on [...] . . . → Read More: Thinking about a new series… Check out my progress on the January Doll, over at Freshmonsters.com… . . . → Read More: January Doll, Stage I – Bead Journal Project 2010 Photographer Steven Gerlich and his assistant Jessica Gellweiler took photos of my most recent collage work. You can see the new images in my Short Circuits gallery. Here’s one of them: The Notion of Emptiness Generates Passion . . . → Read More: Recent Assemblage Work I just finished teaching a course on American Literature of the 1930s at the Freie Universität in Berlin. This painting, based on a public domain photo taken by a Works Project Administration photographer, attempts to capture the grinding poverty and quiet despair of a significant proportion of the population in that era. (Digital painting based on [...] . . . → Read More: Little Thinker |
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