artist + writer + perpetual home renovator

a neon (or led) cross with its six foot shiny new fences hemming it in on every side and raisor sharp wire surrounding its top. it is not a fence i can climb; its gate is kept locked, i assume, the key hidden away.0

And Orion was quickly swallowed by the morning of the day.0

Sitting in the shade on the back porch of the beloved parental units home base with a nice breeze attempting to finish prepping for my new WASH students next week. Am distracted as usual by the undercurrents and rhythms of living and the unchangeable histories... Read More0

For my new planters…can't decide if free was worth the sweat equity of smashing up old bricks this morning. I'll throw in a little purchased gravel to finish the base of the planters before adding some kind of nutrient rich soil. Think I'll go to... Read More0

…equals five box planters, three days (less if it wasn't so bloody hot), 30 bucks in deck screws, 5 bucks in drill bits, and twenty battery charges for my sweet makita chica light weight drill (two batteries, so I never had to wait on the... Read More0

With rust striated patina from years of holding steel pipes. Pretty. Thanks to Houston’s Reuse Warehouse who helps divert industrial/construction waste from our land fills and repurposes the materials to/for non-profits like BOX 13 Artspace. Currently I am making planter boxes out of the oak... Read More0

They harvest from construction materials headed to the landfill, usually diverted from new construction excess and demo. Houston non profits can cone harvest these materials at no charge, slowing the waste stream of usable construction material filling Houston’s ten active and humongous landfills. It is... Read More0

beginning of post hand bend and squish day. That top hand should look all bony and knuckly like this one. Hey but I am just glad it’s not broken or torn or what have you. Puffy but works and makes that hand look so much... Read More0

But I’ll give the 12′ x 15′ drop cloth painting a shot. Kind of awkward working on floor with charcoal and paint brushes taped to the end of a stick. It’s more the floor part that’s difficult–distortion. But distortion in a drawing is good. sometimes... Read More0

As I stepped in for a moment, I just missed the fading of the orange sky. Its slipped back to grays and blues as the sun sinks swallowed up by tommorrow. I can hear the crickets over the traffic’s to and fros. The rumble of... Read More0

so i took a kitchen hot water (for hot tea and such) on demand kit plus some crazy plumbing adapters and connected it directly to a kitchen sink faucet i had already adapted to my bathroom sink. This was going to be my source of... Read More0

Some things are hard to throw away, like this turkey baster. I remember being a little miffed when it was converted to a storm drain mosquito larva sampler. I got over it quickly enough once it dawned on me that we very rarely hosted family... Read More0