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Assemblage III

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  Featured work: Airplane sculpture In the new work I have been creating, the word assemblage has been creeping into my vocabulary. So it makes sense that I began reviewing the history of “assemblage” in the arts. Needless to say, I also ran across the word in academia. I shouldn’t be surprised—but I kind of was. AI briefly states that assemblage theory was developed by two Frenchmen—of course—Deleuze and Guattari, and then popularized by Manuel DeLanda. They view assemblage theory as social and material reality as fluid groupings of heterogeneous elements rather than fixed entities. Assemblages are formed by interactions between people, objects, and ideas, creating properties greater than their parts. But artists already knew that. Assemblages are the relational system of things, practices, habits, bodies, concepts, and environments that give rise to an emergent and coherent logic. The first assemblage artists I came across were Louise Nevelson and Robert Rauschenberg. I ask myse...
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Stepping Over the Line

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  Featured image: What Lies Beneath Stepping over the line—most of the time, we are led to believe that isn't a good thing. That is the bottom line. But for me, like so many things in life, not everything is as it first appears. Stepping over that line—be it red, purple, orange, yellow, or blue—is the place where discovery and adventure begin. It is stepping outside my comfort zone and into the playground. It is where true growth happens. It is the place of being on the edge. And it is where the light of your potential and mine awaits. Perhaps that is simply another way of thinking about stepping over that red line.
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Begin with an Idea

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  Featured work: Little Bird “I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.” — Pablo Picasso
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With the Wind

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  Featured image: Summer Winds Sat with the wind today—what a blessing. It brought abundance after the smoke and heat. I so embraced this abundance. It was like dancing with a whole new universe, and I opened my arms with gratitude to the wonderful possibilities and fresh flow of life it brought after all the smoke and heat, creating a new cycle of joy and growth. It's as though the smoke had stifled all things, and now its curtain has been lifted, and a new day has begun. I am cultivating this new mindset and feeling blessed, opening my heart to these infinite possibilities. Imagining... vibrant gardens, tending and nurturing these new seeds I am planting in the wind, with the wind.
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Warbler's Song

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  Featured work: Yellow Bird At this moment, this very moment, I wish I could be a tiny warbler and answer the call of a male warbler singing his heart out. Calling, calling for a mate. His song is so glorious and pure on this sunny morning. Now I hear another. Glorious morning. In the weavings I am currently doing, I hope I am showing that everything is connected. Everything is like a weaving, whether tightly woven or loosely woven. The papers are woven together one way or another. Adornments are added, stories are told as I work. Things are connected, like the warblers, their song, and me this morning. Glorious morning.
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Blackbird

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  Featured work: Blackbird Lyrics: Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these broken wings and learn to fly
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to arise Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these sunken eyes and learn to see
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to be free Blackbird, fly
Blackbird, fly
Into the light of the dark black night Blackbird, fly
Blackbird, fly
Into the light of the dark black night Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these broken wings and learn to fly
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to arise You were only waiting for this moment to arise
You were only waiting for this moment to arise Source: Musixmatch Is this not a powerful song? For me, it is like the message of Christ. It is a song of hope. It is a song of freedom. It is a song of struggle. And it is a song about life. It is a song about life that applies to all of us throughout history. In this song, the symbolism is a blackbird,...
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Why Be Normal

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  Featured work:  Whirly - Gig I have a magnet on my magnet board that says Why Be Normal? I have always thought that artwork that matches the pillows on your sofa is a normal thing to do. As an artist I often find myself asking, WHY do people like to be normal? Like a wind-up toy. Someone winds up your key, and you just waddle about like everyone else. You don't have to think for yourself—it is easier if someone else thinks for you. Just take the blue pill like in the movie The Matrix where taking the blue pill means the story ends, and you wake up in your bed believing whatever you want to believe. It allows you to return to the blissful ignorance of everyday life and avoid having to think about or question reality. Everything is blissfully normal and boring. Normality doesn't celebrate differences. Normal rarely changes. But things do change. We are not merely different; we are unique—one of a kind, one in a million. There are millions of us, yet each of us is singular. We ...
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