I'm equal parts list-maker and daydreamer. Sometimes I have great ideas on paper that just don't work out in the real world. For example, this weekend I had been scheduled to teach a printmaking class and nobody signed up. I'm not upset about it--sometimes you try something and it doesn't work out. Now I have a few extra hours to myself on Saturday--which I will probably spend making new print blocks. 
This past week, I read about a printmaker that created a 6-foot long print block and my brain cannot get enough of that idea. I'm not ready for a 6-foot block (my studio table is only 4-foot long), but making bigger prints is definitely on the horizon for me. 
I've also got some new art supplies on the way and I am excited to try them out. 
I just updated this here website and will be debuting a sales page on Saturday 11/20/21. 
I'm going to explore all of the features and see what else I can do with this platform. Maybe a newsletter? Maybe embedded videos? The world is my mollusk! 

That's all for now, friends.

My brain is a weird place. Maybe everybody's brain is a weird place? All of our thoughts are a collection of our lived experiences, so it's entirely possible that I am not alone in my wonderings. I was raised Catholic, and if you know anything at all about Catholicism you know about the Saints. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of Saints and they are everywhere. And Saints have an incredibly important role to fill in the lives of many people worldwide. 
While I am no longer a practicing Catholic, the lives and deaths of Saints are still buried deep in my brain. 
One of the requirements for becoming a Saint is performing or witnessing a miracle (this is important!), and lately I have been reading about forest ecosystems. I'm currently in the middle of Finding the Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard (Knopf, 2021). Did you know about the role of fungi in the health of forests? Did you know that if you remove the fungi from the soil, the forest will die? Talk about mind-blowing. 
I started to think about the inter-connectedness of the world, and the amazing role that fungi play. That got all swirled around with the idea of miracles and life and death after life. And the artwork that arose from that was a series of Sainted Mushrooms.

And while I know that the Church would never, I am not the Church--so I am free to see the miracle of cooperation in creation. 
​I am going to be putting a limited run up for sale mid-November on this here website. Follow me on Instagram for the release announcement. 

​That's all for today, friends.