Back into the field again
After returning home from my Holden Village artist residency,I’ve been feeling a bit frisky. I wonder if a few braincells were freeze-dried in the fresh mountain air of the north […]
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white snow red berries
My studio opens onto a deck, where I saw these melting snow patterns punctuated with berries from our Mountain Ash tree.
Foraging for rock textures at Point Lobos
San Jose, San Francisco and Palo Alto left me giddy after my museum and gallery visits two weeks ago. Understandable, living as I do in north Idaho, so distant from […]
Coming out about Interstitial: Between Earth and Sky
A Google alert stared at me from the inbox when I turned on my computer this morning. Click! A news release: UW Museum presents Interstitial: Between Earth & Sky. I’m always […]
Art exhibits in San Jose plus surprising inspiration
Yesterday … the first of of what I’ve planned as a three-day field trip, while hubby is at conference at Stanford University in Palo Alto. I grabbed the train to […]
Ancient mystical relics at Veedauwoo
A towering jumble of giant rocks rises out of flat high plains between Cheyenne and Laramie. Known as one of world’s climbing meccas, it reportedly has over 300 routes to […]
Partaking of Wyoming’s sedimentary strata
Yesterday, a surprising end to an interview with the University of Wyoming videographer Ali Grossman. While packing her gear, she pulled me aside: “There are some fabulous rock formations south […]
The shadowy life of Interstitial
Where there is much light, the shadow is deep.”- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe From high on the lift at the University of Wyoming Art Museum, I watch the endless play […]
Channeling architect Antoine Predock
It’s time for me to talk about my silent collaborator: Antoine Predock. The world-acclaimed architect designed the UW Centennial Complex, which houses the museum. Though cloudscapes inspired Interstitial, the design […]
Surfacing in Laramie
Some people surf. I surface. Surfacing is an obsession, especially when I travel. It’s the word I use for taking closeup photos of surfaces that I encounter—anywhere and everywhere. Peeling wood, […]
It’s cloud’s illusions I recall: Part Two
. . . now they only block the sun. They rain and snow on everyone. So many things I would have done. But clouds got in my way. — Joni Mitchell To continue […]
It’s cloud’s illusions I recall: Part One
I’ve looked at clouds from both sides now. From up and down, and still somehow. It’s clouds illusions I recall. I really don’t know clouds at all. — Joni Mitchell With […]
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