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2020 – a year in review
2020 has been a gruesome year for the whole world. In the small town of Sandpoint, Idaho, in a tiny house studio, these were the reverberations made manifest. Backwards in time, December saw a fresh heartbreak, November was spent away, … Continued
Seeing Thestrals
Recently, I sat down with a friend and recorded him tell stories from his time as a correctional officer at a maximum security facility. He started off composed, though the pen he was flicking betrayed his concentration, the way a … Continued
Nudity – about personal responsibility
Visual Art My visual artwork is figurative, which means it is almost entirely based on the nude human figure. I can rattle off good reasons for that, as well as unreasoned, visceral motivation. At the end of the day, I’m … Continued
Making Room – Placemaking
Creative Placemaking Creative Placemaking was coined by Ann Markusen and Anne Gadwa in a 2010 report by that name for the National Endowment for the Arts. A quick google search turns up an accessible definition: Creative Placemaking is … Continued
Interiors – notes
I recently had the opportunity to visit with a local woman who has been in the process of decorating a new house she had built on prime lake-side property. The house was a lovely, contemporary building, with surprises like a … Continued
Making Room – building, dwelling, thinking
Upon my first reading, I took the words quite literally with only a superficial knowledge of who wrote them and when, and felt (as I’m sure many before me have) like there was room for me to build my own … Continued
Making Room
On November 20th, 2017, my solo show “Making Room” opened at Emerge Gallery, in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. On the wall: “Space is in essence that for which room has been made, that which is let into its bounds.” Heidegger … Continued
The price of space – an article
Recently, a local newspaper – Sandpoint Reader – http://sandpointreader.com/ – published an article I wrote about some of the issues that tiny house dwellers face when they choose to live tiny. The Reader is a free publication that serves the greater Sandpoint … Continued
Habitation vs. Occupation
Wayfaring, I believe, is the most fundamental mode by which living beings, both human and non-human, inhabit the earth. By habitation I do not mean taking one’s place in a world that has been prepared in advance for the populations … Continued