Hallowed Eve
A couple years ago I helped start up a little art support group in my area. Because it’s hard to make art in a vacuum. Because sometimes all you need is a critical (but compassionate) eye or word. Because it’s a great excuse to get together and laugh and make and eat excellent food. Here [...]
FALL
I took these photos a few days ago. Glorious autumn. Glowing months when the world is cold and aflame. Every last nerve itches with the fantastic hunch that everything is alive, alive alive. This autumn is flying, but so very intense. Days of billowing storm cloud with sun-dazzled trees in the foreground. When I walk, [...]
Jan Fabre’s Heaven of Delight
* 1.4 million jewel beetle shells * 3 months and 30 artist/assistants * ceiling of the Hall of Mirrors in the Royal Palace of Brussels * Jan Fabre = Heaven of Delight Something unique and fantastical; in keeping with a magical reality. I love this work – Outlandish but undeniably and severely beautiful; a [...]
You Hide Your Boat in the Ravine
You hide your boat in the ravine and your fish net in the swamp and tell yourself that they will be safe. But in the middle of the night a strong man shoulders them and carries them off, and in your stupidity you don’t know why it happened. You think you do right to hide [...]
Squared
Squared Ring : Hand-Fabricated and Patinated Geometric Cityscape Ring. Sterling Silver with Chrysocolla Druzy. US size 7. Chrysocolla Druzy cut by Cindy Liu. Available for purchase. One of a Kind.
Druzy I : Something Willed, Something Wild
It is said that every good artist must have her obsession. Mine, right here and now, is Druzy. Drusy. Druzies. Drusies. Specifically, natural colored druzies – The stones with ripe, berry hues and crisp, glacial heavenly blues – Unreal, ghostly grays – Rich rare emerald greens of endless grasslands – Deep night-sky true blacks [...]
I met her near the end of September.
It had been raining that day from morning to night – the kind of soft, monotonous, misty rain that often falls at that time of year, washing away bit by bit the memories of summer burned into the earth. Coursing down the gutters, all those memories flowed into the sewers and rivers, to be carried [...]
On Wanting
Who makes these changes? I shoot an arrow right. It lands left. I ride after a deer and find myself chased by a hog. I plot to get what I want and end up in prison. I dig pits to trap others and fall in. I should be suspicious of what I want. -Rumi
The Importance of Attitude
I am finally getting the hang of this jewelry photography thing. I used to think a) It’s too difficult b) It’s too time-consuming c) I’m bad at it d) I don’t like it e) It doesn’t like me f) I’d much rather be doing something – ANYTHING – else g) Please someone – ANYONE – [...]
Winter Walk
My heart rejoices In the shadows of icicles
Reading List I : The Enchantress of Florence
Salman Rushdie. I had tried to read his novels before, with little-to-no success. They were a jumble, a mishmash, a no-good concatenation of syllables – a literary fury – a grandeur of meaningless and intriguing language – which were completely nonsensical mystery-junk to me at the time. That is, until we reached Calcutta. Or Kolkata, [...]
