Start a big foolish project

Start a big foolish project

Every painting is a failure While I’m not an angsty tortured artist who destroys all their work, it is true that I’m never satisfied. I don’t experience this as a negative. My dissatisfaction actually excites me. It’s my fuel, the engine that drives me forward. I...
Nature is a dirty word: on language and belonging

Nature is a dirty word: on language and belonging

“Nature is not a place to visit. It is home,” Gary Snyder There are two words I find tricky to use when writing about my work—nature and landscape. Let’s start with nature The assumptions baked into our language around the natural world make me uneasy. There’s...
Power’s Out: 10 days of different

Power’s Out: 10 days of different

At the end of March the area I live in was hit hard by an ice storm. Over a million people lost power. Many were restored in a day or two. We were out for 10 days. No power, no running water. Sounds terrible, but we coped. We collected rainwater to fill our toilets....
Adventures in Colour: dyeing & density

Adventures in Colour: dyeing & density

My first dyeing experiment First the dyeing I hadn’t dyed anything since I tie-dyed a shirt at daycamp. But as I started scaling up my liquid acrylic experiments I wondered if dyeing could help. I love the colour harmonies I get when I use a coloured background. Lots...

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