poem – Rilke 12.2.21

I’m too alone in the world, yet not alone enoughto make each hour holyI’m too small in the world, yet not small enoughto be simply in your presence, like a thing—just as it is.I want to know my own willand to move with it.And I want, in the hushed momentswhen the nameless draws near,to be …

studio renovation 11.18.2021

I'm starting to make my own ceramic glazes, now that I have my own kiln. And I needed space to store the glaze containers in my small home studio, located in what once was a kitchen on the 2nd floor of my home. I decided to renovate these old kitchen cupboards to be a glaze …

art quote – Kladzyk 11.4 2021

It’s important that artists remind themselves what giving your creative output autonomy means.It means that you will never know all the people your work will matter to. You’ll never be able to measure it. You’ll never be able to witness it. You’ll maybe witness, if you’re lucky, some traces of what it means to people. …

land art exhibit 10.21.2021

I caught this year's land art exhibit at the Farley Center during its final days this year. This is the 5th year the Farley Center has hosted this exhibit, and this year it's called "Rooted in the Land: Land Art Exhibition." Twenty seven artists created outdoor, sustainable art installations, using only materials that safely decompose …

wordless and blue 10.7.2021

my own kiln! 9.23.2021

This year, I discontinued my membership to the local community ceramics studio and ordered my very own kiln! I bought an L&L e23-M3. It's got 5.5 cubic feet of space, almost 2 feet across, and a little less than 2 feet high on the inside. Not huge, but not teeny. I didn't want a kiln …

poem – Laux 9.9.2021

On the Edge by Dorianne Laux After your mother dies, you will learn to liveon the edge of life, to brace yourselflike she did, one hand on the dashboard,the other gripping your purse while you drivethrough the stop sign, shoulders tense,eyes clamped shut, waiting for the collisionthat doesn't come. You will learnto stay up all …

art quote – Knausgaard 9.2.2021

"It is we who give meaning to things, and on that basis create the world. We believe that we live in a fixed reality, a world in which culture is fluid and nature is rigid or in which the present is fluid and history rigid, but that is an illusion."Karl Ove Knausgaard, from a NYT …

new painting 8.19.2021

Delusion Protects Illusion. Mixed media diptych on paper, each part 14x17.

first tattoo 7.29.2021

I got my first ever tattoo earlier this month! I never had much of an urge to get a tattoo. Then, after my son Peter died in 2019, I thought a tattoo would be a good memorial to him. Another way to keep his memory alive. I felt like I had a reason to decorate …