New Work

I just dropped these pieces off at Gallery 360 today. 

1. The movement of cells bound to light

2. The beginning of light felt like amber

3. Perched on the edge of bloom, color was not separate from sound

4. Such light inside her. It spilled out of her mouth, cutting her words in half

5. The land is a clock and time is the sea and light flows from everything in long angles

6. Waters stretch across the room of my chest

Of course, prints of the new work are available for purchase in the shop.

Little pieces of my studio

1. My sister recently moved back to Portland. I miss her. The pin was found by her and that social capital dollar bill was made during her work on the Minneapolis Reclamation Project last summer. I love you Sarah Frances!

2. I'm sprouting mungzuki bean seeds!

Here it is winter...

... and it's hard to remember that there is water moving in other places of the world. These photos are from another time and place and season.

I woke up early last week. Night was still hanging onto everything and I wrote this:

I move apart -
joints floating away from their sockets,
skin draped with flails of muscle rippling,
blood has to move a mile from my hands to my heart,
cells orbit slowly around bones.
My dreams are fire far off in the distance
and wolves who pull animal noises from my throat.
Even the moon follows me here,
its path a twisted helix along the horizon.
My stomach turns over.
The body knows.

Mammoth & Co.

I'm proud to say my work is up on the amazing Mammoth & Co. site. They are selling three of my original Coil paintings as well as prints of each.

Check out the site here. 

1. Rain grows heavy and thick and so close together there's hardly room to breathe between the drops
2. Illuminate Aria inside a thousand leaves 

Click on the titles to purchase these prints in the shop.

In progress mixed media pieces

Some images of what I'm working on in the studio. 

Six new mixed media pieces are slowly coming together. 

These are for a show at Gallery 360 in March. 

They feel really good to work on.

Coil XXIV

Coil XXIV

12" x 12"

Watercolor and Gouache on gessoed wood panel

New drawings on black paper added to the shop

I've added several of these drawing on black paper to the shop this week. 

New Coil paintings

1. Coil XVI
2. Coil XVIII
3. Coil XIII
4. Coil XXI
5. Coil XXII
6. Coil XXIII


I'm happy to say that some of these originals will soon be for sale on Mammoth & Co.

Now that these paintings are finished I'm going to dive back into some new mixed media pieces for a show at Gallery 360 in March.

This morning...

...I woke up with a vivid dream and these words in my head:

The dream cracked open and both halves rolled away from me.

P.S. Luis took this photo

Pomegranates with Luis and Bubba
A table full of prints
Birthday Succulents

This is a drawing from a project I'm working on that combines my writing and drawing. 

It's a story, or a poem, really, about how falling in love changed me. 

This is just one page... it's a big project and I still have a lot of work to do. 

A dissonance in my memory I carry around

mixed media

30" x 40"

This original is currently up and for sale at Gallery 360. 

But you can buy prints of it here.