First Thursday artist’s reception
What fun to look back on the whirlwind of last night’s First Thursday opening of Intertwined. People started arriving at 5 pm and kept coming through the door until the door was shut at 9 pm. […]
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Peek-a-boo DVD with poem
Day Day Five: Intertwined had a soft opening today at the Method Gallery noon to 5 pm. Everything came together exactly at 11:55 am. Signage—check. Floor swept—check. Artist statement framed—check. The getting-ready energy flowed beautifully […]
Intertwined—textile landscape comes to life
Day Four: What glorious feeling! After weeks of finger-looping over 12 miles of twine and trying to imagine how the work might take shape, it happened. Today, my “imaginary geography” […]
Disaster averted, just barely
Day Three: Not in my worst nightmare could I have predicted the collapse of Intertwined during its making. But it happened, without warning. I was speechless. The suspended mass of twine ripped from […]
Intertwined—sloped and contoured
Day Two: It might look like chaos. However, what I created in the far corner yesterday presented me with clarity this morning. I knew instantly that I wanted to go off book. Rather than suspending […]
Intertwined—the far corner
Day One: Empty gallery. I started with the far corner. It offered the perfect sightline for articulating a sense of distance. Perfect—except for the bench. My first order of business was to […]
Unloading the goods
Day Zero: Sunday in the heart of Pioneer Square — yea — free parking right smack in front of Method Gallery. Not bad. I’m stunned that I was able to […]
Paper pulp as faux basalt
Today, today I took a break from finger-looping twine to assemble a mock up of my experiments with paper pulp in my newly dubbed Guest Bedroom Gallery. The grey mottled crustiness of […]
Twine beasty takes over studio
There’s no space to go at my house—except in my head. Twine has invaded every nook and cranny of my studio, the guest bedroom, and now the living room is endangered, too.
Of form and formlessness
In its own way, this finger-looping process that I’ve committed to is mysterious. Everything about it seems organic like nature, magic like myth. But then, nature is magic to me—the […]
Taking a line for a walk
The artist Paul Klee spoke of taking a line for a walk. My impulse has long been to take a line for a twirl and do it again and again and […]
Repetition as mantra
People ask about the role of repetition in my work. Conceptually, it’s my desire to create wholes of small parts, the way nature grows itself—accretion, aggregation, building up, layering. Maybe repetition […]
To touch is to know
Someone once told me that my art was “so touchy feely.” Even when the work isn’t touched, it’s still touchy feely. Because … Touch is considered the mother of all […]
Finger-looping and making meaning
Creating Intertwined re-connected me to philosophical inquiry that I began over a decade ago, while studying for my BFA in sculpture. The title references my interest in intertwining the materiality […]
Speaking of twine
Twine is prehistoric. It dates back to the Stone Age. Relatively new archaeological findings suggest the material/technique first emerged in hunter-gatherer societies as early as 32,000 years ago. Wild flax […]
Ideas evolve to concept
There’s nothing like a grant deadline to force structure on swirling ideas. I spent the day trying to formalize my plans for the Method Gallery to submit with a grant application to the Idaho Commission on the Arts. […]
The body and baling wire
Two days ago, I became keenly aware of how my gestures involved in shaping wire armatures developed a rhythm. It’s different but similar to my process of finger-looping twine. It reminded me of writings […]
The Guest Bedroom Gallery
Today: a eureka moment! My studio has wonderful light—actually the best light our 130-year old house has to offer. But its wall space is limited. Worse, the ceiling isn’t suited to […]
Twine and me
I’ve been thinking about the two miles of unraveled twine I used to create my BFA exhibit in 2007. After graduating, I continued using the unraveled fibers for installations in the spring […]
Sage Advice: “Follow the Work”
Today is the day I settled (sort of) on a design (sort of) for my installation at the Method Gallery. But I got distracted, by trying to sort out my impulse for using […]
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