Creativity
Here’s my story (and I’m not sticking to it)
I’ve been in between things for some time now. Like in my career. And it is glorious. I mean, literally glorious. Each day feels like an adventure, my…
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recent visual work
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Creativity
Mapping: meeting what you need on the checkerboard of life – with art project
On the checkerboard of life, the right thing is finding its way to you, as you are to it.~ My Mom Artwork: No Title by the author 2024…
Research & Development
pushy, derivative, thieving, lying, child AI.
Ok, first: forgive this title. Yes, it’s here to grab your attention, but has less vitriol behind it than perhaps it sounds. Truth is, whether I like it…
Mommess
Matchy matchy branding is going, going …
I only have a few minutes to write this. Remember when the sign that a business was “official” was that all their social channels, their website, their email…
Family
If it’s brown…
There’s a bell in the bathroom at my mom’s house. Like one of those “ring for service,” bells that dings when you slap it. Because there’s more than…
Creativity
Sundials & Compasses
Because my writing like this last post is often a long and complex weave of many ideas1 , I’m writing this short post as a palate cleanser. I…
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Concise
I made a short 16mm film named Concise. It could be called an avant garde film and it was engrossing to make. I made it as a follow…
Mommess
Believing, Knowing and a Timeless Smile
The power of acknowledgement & questions for deep, time-released understanding. Sitting outside at a small red cafe table on Laguardia Place in New York City, Jim Smith looked…
Mommess
Stewarding the Internet
Women are used to this in terms of motherhood, being unseen and unpaid: just “expected.” Moms do love and care and survival of the species. It’s a default…
Creativity
Becoming a writer
Play on words, Play with words: what do you want to know about you? My first poem, which I can recite by heart, woke me up. I wrote…
Mommess
Flow in the trenches
I used to work at a restaurant run by, as the owner put it, “a team of leaders.” I never knew what she meant until the rains came.…