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Sept 2025 Negotiating Turmoil with Tenderness
When Inspiration Retreats…. I’ve been experiencing so many identity shifts as of late; the primary result is I’m Un-Inspired art-wise… no desirable track I’m ready to jump into daily. Despite my ego being challenged by this, I am resolved to stay with the Truth of...
Aug 2025 A Dance with AI – is it legit for creative endeavors?
AI is becoming front and center to our lives in many arenas of life. As I’ve begun to explore Chat GPT myself, with some guidance from friends, I’ve found some wonderful insights in dream interpretation, as well as exploring cutting edge ideas, including those that...
July 2025 – The Path from Outer to Inner
I’m sharing a Truth I struggle with. That is, ‘I don’t quite fit in’, or at least, have struggled to find a stable alignment with an art audience. My creative impulse to explore, expand, experiment, doesn’t quite work within the art world’s parameters. If an artist...
June 2025 Heart Directed
In this June update, I’d like to share the last grouping of smaller encaustic, mixed media artworks I’ve made. The Series continues; I’ve I've only been showing them on Instagram (not on my website). These 7 are all about the importance of shifting into Heart-Based...
May 2025 Art News – Was Egypt more Advanced than Us Now?
Yup! That is the Short Answer, as I understand it. Being ultra-conditioned into the linear-time belief system, I didn’t seriously question why the Art History classes on Egypt I taught at university, didn’t make sense (until much later). The rhetoric of belief...
The Life of an Artwork – The 38-year Journey of a Giant Goddess Sculpture
Recently, I read a novel by Geraldine Brooks, titled ‘People of the Book’. It is an historical fictional account of the creation and migrations of the Sarajevo Haggadah, an ancient and rare illuminated Jewish manuscript; it highlights the circumstances and people...
February 2025 – Change is upon Us All
As the world continues to spin, seeming out of control, what can we do? I can only advise from what I know to be true for me. Do not waste time in judgement, blame, loathing or fear. Stand in y/our own unique power as a loving individual; choose quiet over inflamed...
January 2025 Art News: Back to the Future
I’m following up from the last newsletter (December 2024), wherein I spoke of the New Year Seeds I’m Planting. I’ll flesh out what I’ve done with respect to the 1st Intention, which is: "I will complete the New Zealand Series of works with descriptions and reflect...
December 2024 – Reflections & Seed Planting for 2025
Are you ready for 2025? What is even being asked by this question? The question implies an annual opportunity to set new goals for our life going forward. For me, because the New Year of the Gregorian calendar is not inherently connected to nature,...
Flight Patterns November, 2024
In the recent September newsletter, I introduced a new series I initiated as a creative response to a ‘call to artists’ by the Confluence Gallery in Twisp, WA. Their exhibition theme, ‘Taking Flight’, asked artists to offer bird themed art. In that article, I gave...