Art on Purpose
Another year has gone by, yet again filled with travel and adventure. I spent January in Europe, touching down in Spain, Turkey and Romania, dodging the virus carefully, February back in Berkeley, weaving, and March back in Eastern Washington, in … Continued
2021 saw me traveling quite a bit, and the unsteadiness made it difficult to gather myself enough to create elaborate compositions. I did meet a few wonderful people, and kept them in ink portraits alongside the ones of my oldest … Continued
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
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
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
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
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
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
