recent paintings 5.25.2023

Trippin on Ele, oil pastel and wax pencil on paper, 14x17 in, 2023 Theodore, oil pastel and wax pencil on paper, 14x17 in, 2023

grief quote – Sewell 5.11.2023

Grief is for the living – taunting us with the hope that we will get through it to experience some other less consuming state of being.  by Claire Sewell

wordless and green 4.27.2023

art quote – Vuong 4.13.2023

To remember is to displace the present. Every act of remembering is actually an act of creation. Ocean Vuong

window gallery 3-year anniversary 3.30.2023

This month I recognized 3 years of the Center & Miller Window Gallery! The gallery is in a window in my home, located in Madison, Wisconsin. I started the window gallery in 2020, just after the COVID shutdown. Here's a post about my gallery opening:) I switch out the gallery about every 2 weeks. The …

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poem – Crooker 3.16.2023

REQUIEM for Judy by Barbara Crooker It is early March, each day a little bit greener, crocus and snowdrops already in bloom, daffodils sending up the tips of their spears. When summer comes, we will take you to the river, trickle your ashes through our fingers. You will return to us in rain and snow, …

new 2d works 3.2.2023

Here are a couple of my latest 2D works. It Doesn't Do to Dwell On It I, 2022, mixed media on paper It Doesn't Do to Dwell On It II, 2022, mixed media on paper

where do my ceramics live? 2.16.2023

I found a map that I'd been storing in my map collection and decided to put it to good use. After gluing it to a piece of foam core, I attached a picture hanger to the back and hung it on the wall near my ceramics studio. Each time one of my ceramic pieces goes …

grief quote – Renkl 2.2.2023

Reminders take every possible form — the feel of pine needles underfoot, the scent of a passing woman’s perfume, the tail end of a song on a coffee shop radio, a letter tumbling out of a long-unopened book, the taste of boiled peanuts, salty and warm. The reminders loop between past and present, between one …

photographing ceramics 1.19.2023

Let me start this post by admitting that I've not had any type of instruction in taking photos. You could say that I'm a self-taught photographer. I've tried a variety of locations around my home for taking photos of my ceramics. The couch, the piano bench, next to a window, and outside, on the back …