Read moreWelcome to fall, all! Last week, I had the rare joy of catching up with my childhood friend Drew, a fellow artist. He was sort of thinking out loud about the head-scratching heartache of trying to convince others (particularly gatekeepers) that your work is worth looking at. Of course, it’s something I understand all too […]
Read moreHello, You! It feels like it’s been ages since I last wrote though it’s only been a few weeks. Wedding season will do me like that, tbh. I’m currently in Big Sky, MT – out of state for the third weekend in a row. But the light is at the end of the tunnel and […]
Read moreWelcome to Season 14! Last season’s lessons were big ones. I hit a personal breaking point with my lifelong survival strategy of acute overwork and learned to sleep through the night for the first time in my nearly four decades on planet earth. I traded in a white-knuckled ladder metaphor for something more embodied: I […]
Read moreAs per usual for this time of year, I’m writing from Big Sky (#weddingseason), coming at you with the final Deep Dive for Artifice, Season 13. This season closed with three beautiful conversations featuring fiber artist Cricket Jergens, tattooist/illustrator Makoto Chi, and conductor/educator Chris Ramos (returning for Part II, as promised!). Of course, I will […]