I have an obsession with scale.
In an interview recently I was asked “why?” The obsession has to do with how scale can change perspective, and change our experience of reality. My first encounters with artwork that surpassed and subsumed my visual field were at the Des Moines Art Center. Climbing inside Andy Goldsworthy’s “Three Carins” and being enveloped by stack stone and a soft concave interior transported me.
Read MoreIt’s been a vastly expansive year for me. The opportunity to be in British Vogue was not even on my radar so what a special gift to be in this month’s magazine. To me it has been a great gift of external reality lining up with inner reality. As I validated and recognized the value and quality of the work I have been making, regardless of whether I was receiving any recognition. Which has not been easy, and it is affirming to be recognized by an institution like @britishvogue . So grateful for my lamps to be included.
Read MoreAllison Sinkewich and her series of cross-stitch stills from “2001, A Space Odyssey” by Stanley Kubrick. This set of 12 stills has a profound level of precision and vibrancy. At first glance the work looks like a photo, as you get closer you see the individual stitches acting like ones and zeros like a computer’s color display system. The artist has created a dialogue between thread and technology, AI and ancient practice, art and its creator.
Read MoreThis statement may be crass, but it is also one of the most helpful realizations I have ever had in my life. I have a habit of overthinking, a habit of perfectionism. I want to do all the messy work behind the scenes and then poof, like a magic trick, share the perfect, final version. And I have done this because that's what I thought I had to do to be enough, to be worthy, to be a real artist, and so people take me seriously and of value.
Read MoreLEGACY TOTEM - Our inheritance as humans is more than our genetic dispositions, or family it is unfolding at every level societally, politically, environmentally, and spiritually. And our legacy that we are leaving collectively and individually is greater than we could ever imagine, what are we leaving for those who come after us?
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