thank you

Good morning,

I woke up late this morning and don't have too much time to post. But I really want to thank you for all your kindness yesterday. Your comments and emails have touched me and I want you to know how much I appreciate each of you. You are my listening rock. Actually, we are each other's listening rock, right? :)

} These little daffodils bloom later than our others. I like that, once the others are fading these new ones step in.

} New work I'm preparing which I hope to share more fully soon. The piece on top is "listening rock", graphite, colored pencil, watercolor, letterpress on paper, 5 in. x 7 in.

I hope the sun shines where you are this weekend,
H

bless you

I made this tiny artist's book in 2001, when I was finishing my last semester of grad school. It was a time of uncertainty and I think that is one thing that has recently reminded me of this piece.

Yesterday you saw my game face, well that wore off at lunch time and then I just couldn't fake it anymore. I know lots of you have certain stresses right now and I don't like to chime in to the hype the media plays up about the economy, but sometimes the pressures rise and you just have to acknowledge it, then move on. Amen? Amen.

We have been so stressed lately and I've been thinking about how it is affecting other areas of our lives. I won't go into details because I'm still figuring it out. But I think all this has led me to some of the recent subject matter and concepts in my work. I've been drawing rocks, feathers, shells and fragments, seedlings, roots and I'm also considering humor/irony again. These things feel honest to me, and while the meaning during the process is sometimes veiled, even to myself, I still follow it because I know it will lead someplace.

All of this is to say that this tiny book holds for me some aspect of myself, then in 2001, that I see now when I look in the mirror. I'm somehow looking in the window of yesterday, metaphorically and actually. And I just wanted to share this with you. I like to tell the truth and this is my space to do that. Hope you don't mind.

Oh, some of the materials I used in this book include : drawing ink, digital print, vellum, hymnal pages, graphite, conte crayon, toilet paper, egg shells and skin, punched paper holes, and thread. I love mixing materials and recognizing the stories they tell together, don't you?

This spring exhibition looks awesome, I wish I could go see it.

I hope you have a blessed end to your week.
H

hello

playing around with letterpress yesterday in the studio after my brain was tired from decision making.

} thanks for noticing with us in march. you keep on noticing, ok?

have a good one. around here we call this wacky wednesday.
H

seedlings II

G' morning,

Sharing a little film with you, actually from last year. But feeling happy that our seedlings fared ok through the weekend's weather, I decided to dig these out. This year {so far} we have spinach, mesclun salad mix, kohlrabi, sugar snaps, pak choy, tomatoes, eggplant, brussels sprouts, and broccoli seedlings coming up. We have new strawberry plants and grape plants to set. Our lettuce, cucumber, and zucchini seeds were too old so we need to restart those. Hopefully the weather this next weekend will cooperate and we can get those babies in the ground!

I hope the garden does well that we can pretty much live off it over the summer. Wouldn't that be so nice? M. has the task of soil preparation and I'll be the primary weeder. I actually like pulling weeds, it kind of filters my brain in the process.

} habit makes me happy.

Are you going to have a garden?
H

seedlings

Hi,

I felt like drawing seedlings this morning - "fig. 1" and "fig. 2", graphite, watercolor, letterpress blind embossing on paper, 5 in. x 5 in. I think "seedlings" will become a small series, perhaps for the shop? or gallery? Don't know yet.

It seems the flowering shrubs and trees fared ok despite our little ice storm. That's good news!

Guess what? I will be a guest at habit throughout the month of April. I've been looking forward to it all month! So I may be here at my blog a little less as I will be there almost daily. And you know I'm always at the NP. Which reminds me, you have until the end of Tuesday to leave a comment about what you're noticing, and be entered into our giveaway. We'll draw a name on Apr. 1.

It's past lunchtime and I'm hungry. Think I'll make a cream cheese/cucumber sandwich and sit in the sun before getting back to work.
H