and on wholeness

I love it when I leave it up to coincidence to answer a question or a dilemma for me. Today, despite grand intentions to write a longer post and indeed, make a list of future posts so that I don’t get stuck on what to write, it happened anyway….. The day got away, and at [...]

Read Full Post »

revolution 2011

2 other things that I think deserve more credit: Book artists and art therapist. This from Gretchen Miller, art therapist and book artist. ” I can do anything, spread my wings, take to the sky…” Yeah baby!

Read Full Post »

Touch Drawing: Journey into Yourself

A new class I will be teaching at my favorite suburban gallery and art space/shop, TLD Designs in  Westmont, IL: scroll down to paper arts. http://www.tlddesigns.com/pagethree.html#kat    

Read Full Post »

Jeanne-Claude passes over

Sad news, indeed. I have never seen one of their installations “live”, nonetheless, I have been very inspired by their work, by their collaboration, by the vision of their projects, by the faith they have in their own work. http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/19/jeanne-claude-artist-is-dead/?hp Some of their work is documented here: http://www.amazon.com/Films-About-Christo-Jeanne-Claude-Production/dp/1891024949/ref=sr_1_14?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1258660177&sr=8-14 Well worth watching. Beats the stuff that [...]

Read Full Post »

Broadsided! Opening tonight….

Well, it is rainy and cold here tonight in Chicago, but I am happy, because tonight is the opening of Broadsided, where one of my indigo prints is making an appearance. Alas, I cannot be there in person, as it is in Portland, Oregon, and not around the block, so to speak. But I am [...]

Read Full Post »

Recent Work

These images are of a custom journal I was commissioned to do, for a friend’s daughter. It is a 7″ x 9″ leather bound book with an archival longstitch binding (this means there is one thread that holds together the entire thing. You could throw this against a wall and it would still be intact, [...]

Read Full Post »

Audrey N. and “Her Fearful Symmetry”

This is a snippet about Audrey Niffenenger’s forthcoming book, “Her Fearful Symmetry.” Had to post it here, as she shares how she came up with the title. HINT: see this first: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Blake. William Blake was an extraordinary British poet, painter, and printmaker. One of my first graduate school papers was about this man; his “mystic-ness” [...]

Read Full Post »

falling off…keeping on: day 22

Well, today is technically Day 22 of my EFT experiment. The good news is that, despite a slew of setbacks, I have still been doing the EFT experiment, although not as intensely as I was planning. What it has come down to is, a conscious effort to do at least 5 minutes of tapping with [...]

Read Full Post »

quote for the day

“Friendship. Montaigne said that friendships are the freest of all relationships. And in the open-ended ambience of the creative life, where there are no sure things and career paths are not marked out and the advice of parents and teachers frequently proves useless, the friend with whom to talk to, to see things, to make [...]

Read Full Post »

quote for the day

“It is books, poems, and paintings which often give us the confidence to take seriously feelings in ourselves that we might otherwise never have thought to acknowledge….There must have been little beauty in old stones before Japanese priests and poets began writing about them.” ~Alain de Botton, from “The Architecture of Happiness” (a beautiful , [...]

Read Full Post »

words for a winter day

I am a delirious forest goddess blossoming under a grey sky.

Read Full Post »