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On Creativity
Just me, playing with my Virginia Woolf Portrait on the book cover. Dreaming.
Two mornings. Same studio.
The first: I walk in with the list alrea...
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Just Musing
My grandmother never used a thermometer for bread. She pressed her wrist to the dough the way you’d press it to a feverish child’s forehead. A del...
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Just Musing
Someone will always ask it with the slight narrowing of the eyes, the pause before "nice work."
How can you paint right now? How can you think ab...
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Studio Tangents
What I'm watching/listening to this week
Josef Albers: To Open Eyes — Yale Film. A short documentary on Albers' teaching method, which was not th...
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Just Musing
On Creativity
You do not need a camera pointed at you to feel watched. The condition comes before the device. It has, in fact, been with us for some time — with...
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On Creativity
New England | Marsh 5 | Collect Art Print Here ▶︎
Last week, I spent fifteen minutes watching water move through a wash.
That is all. I laid pigme...
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Just Musing
On Creativity
Look, how they used to finish with gold and meticulousness.
The worst version of productivity is when everything is almost done.
I have lived insi...
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Studio Tangents
What I watched this week
Gerhard Richter Painting — Corinna Belz, 2011. Richter pulling a squeegee the width of his body across a canvas three tim...
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Just Musing
On Creativity
The Vein, amiright? Ex-acrobat, that's why.
Read The Art of Lingering Part 1 here.
Back to lingering. Part Duo. As per the quote:
Why hurry ...
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Astrology
You can buy my 2026 Calendar with Oscar Wilde’s reproduction. You can also carry Him with you and your favorite books.
If Part One followed Oscar ...
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Poetic
INTRO.
About Emily Dickinson on [wiki.]
[Emily Dickinson Museum]—a wonderful tour of her house in Amherst, MA, you should take.
Someone please ...
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Astrology
From Claw to Constellation of Lion: The Sky Myth and the Mouth of Oscar Wilde.
You can buy my 2026 Calendar with Oscar Wilde’s reproduction. You...
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Astrology
Happy Birthday to Clarice Lispector!
CL: born Friday, December 10th, 1920 (time unknown), in Chechelnik (Ukraine)
Preamble: This post is rich in as...
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Cartomancy
Spoiler alert! If you're holding off on diving into the "Breaking Bad" pool of drama, skip this post.
Imagine it: 3 am, Wisconsin, a solitary figu...
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Studio Tangents
Arvo Pärt — Spiegel im Spiegel.
Ten minutes. Put it on before you open the door to your studio. You'll understand why.
I did not choose Prussian ...
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Just Musing
There is a version of the creative life I have been watching people live for twelve years: the version where you spend more energy justifying the w...
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On Creativity
There is a quality of time in the studio that has no name in English. In Polish, we might call it czuwanie — a vigil, a watching-over, a being-wit...
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What I'm listening to this week
One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age — Olia Lialina & Dragan Espenschied's Tumblr of rescued GeoCities pages. Not exa...
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Studio Tangents
What I'm watching this week
Mr. Turner — directed by Mike Leigh, 2014. Timothy Spall as Turner, barely speaking, sketching constantly. There is a ...
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Poetic
01: The Nostalgia.
I miss when people just knocked on my door instead of texting, “Here.”
When phones were attached to walls and had cords that ta...
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Studio Tangents
This is how I enter 2026.
This is the energy. Boots on the ground, literally.
Stomping the old and making sure 2026 hears me, because there is no ...
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Poetic
watercolorordeath
My own hashtag. Too much? Maybe. But that’s exactly how it feels — like a blood oath with brushes. Same as I feel with the ocean...
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Poetic
Studio Tangents
Are nipples a crime on Shopify?
They are on Instagram. I just had breakfast with a friend who left the Orthodox Church (almost fully), and we laug...
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Just Musing
Emily's Woods | Art Prints Available here:
The Fall is my favorite smell. The smells of in-between and mischief. People burn their leaves, squirr...
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On Creativity
While people watched the Sun God being devoured by a dragon *, I fondled my dough. Her pronouns are She / Her / Dope.
I watch her breathe, I feel ...
