artist + writer + perpetual home renovator

I-Park Artists Residency

The journey begins

21 May 2010

Northward bound0

The journey begins

21 May 2010

I-Park Artists Residency

Northward bound0

And today! I wonder if the heat of the summer will kill em

19 May 2010

Nine hours later they start to bloom

18 May 2010

I It’s kind of interesting. They were trash I had collected after a freeze–they’d simply fallen off the main body. I tossed them in the back of my truck; then in a hurry instead of planting them I literally tossed them in a heap on...

Still growing in a pile of tubes

18 May 2010

Mom gets trophy for fewest caught fish

17 May 2010

That's no fish story. She was thrilled to receive her trophy. And personally I must say if you must do a nursing home, I am impressed with the care shown my mom and her peers at Crestview in Bryan, TX. It’s kind of an old...

The unsmushed element of tire squash.

16 May 2010

The details and intricacies are amazing0

poem by a friend and another

15 May 2010

My life cracks open. I stand in it, careful not to run. -Jerry Webber ———————————– Listen — are you breathing just a little and calling it a life? -Mary Oliver0

The parental units–a very good set

12 May 2010

Excerpt from Henri J.M. Nouwen's Bread for the Journey

10 May 2010

Holding the Cup We all must hold the cups of our lives. As we grow older and become more fully aware of the many sorrows of life – personal failures, family conflicts, disappointments in work and social life, and the many pains surrounding us on...

i-park artist environmental residency

10 May 2010

YES! I am headed to Connecticut for a month for an artist residency. Though i will still be sewing tire tubes most likely integrated into the tree canopies, i will most definitely be responding to the beautiful habitat, walking the grounds, and responding to the...

A morning with mom

09 May 2010

And a stroll through her gardens.0

08 May 2010

Join me for the WASH student exhibition Tuesday, May 11, 2010, 5 to 7 pm WASH House, Huntsville, TX Students have been busy preparing. Come and see. The W.A.S.H. (Workshop in Art Studio and History) program is a unique opportunity for Sam Houston State University...

Open WASH House

08 May 2010

WASH 2010

Join us for WASH student exhibition Tuesday, May 11, 2010 5 to 7 pm WASH House When coming north on 45, take first exit after Sam Houston Statue travel along 75 ~1 to 2 miles. The WASH house is on the left. If you get...

They really are growing on top of a stack of nonfunctional inner tubes–no dirt, just old tubes.0

Trying to reduce courtyard foot print or in this case tire tread

02 May 2010

By lining up ~6′ tire tube nipples along fence. Hmmm. What will the neigbhors say! Oh my!0

02 May 2010

“Our metaphors go on ahead of us, they know before we do. And thank goodness for that, for if I were dependent on other ways of coming to knowledge I think I’d be a very slow study. I need something to serve as a container...

as with a magnifying glass, the intensity of focused light on that which withers will burn!

02 May 2010

What happens emotionally and behaviorally between partners during the dissolution, the death, of their relationship is a direct magnification of the patterns of behavioral and emotional interaction that were the historical rhythms of the partnership–style of communication, conflict resolution or lack of, forgiveness or lack...

why is it fuzzy?0

My first tattoo

29 Apr 2010

Well, it is a henna tattoo so it will fade. It was part Of one team of our students inflatable installation (art?) projects. Fun. xxit, our only all girl team.0

Full moon, moving vehicle, camera phone

29 Apr 2010

Solar cookery or art

26 Apr 2010

Reminded me of an annual hchs Eco student project. In this case it is art first, cooker second.0

This week, orange is the blanket of wildflowers

24 Apr 2010

north of navasota.0

texture/color studies project (WASH 2010 student projects)

22 Apr 2010

WASH 2010

How do you make an accordion book of texture/color studies interesting? Craftsmanship Sequencing–balancing unity with contrast Contrast of color Contrast of scale Contrast of density Contrast of organic forms vs geometric Contrast of negative/positive Contrast of opacity Contrast of degree of visual noise Craftsmanship Variety...

hmmmm. inflatables without a leaf blower

22 Apr 2010

WASH 2010

Your budget is no excuse for not making art

22 Apr 2010

This is a modular madness project requiring students to work with 100 or more of the same item. This item…nail clippings! YES!0

Truck and trailer loaded

17 Apr 2010

Women & Their Work exhibition: treading where no one hears the echo of her foot fall Two days to load, two days to install, two hours to disassemble, 1 to hour load…. several days to figure out how and to actually store it.0

Some things will grow anywhere

17 Apr 2010