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A Little Relief at the Oakland Museum: Ray and Charles Eames
This was what our northern California sunrise looked like last Saturday. We are not near the terrible fires, but our air quality is so bad it is recommended we stay indoors with the windows tightly...
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New Work: Undersea Colonies
In 2016, I saw a color image in the New York Times that caught my eye. The deep blue against the chartreuse compelled me to study the caption, part of this article, "The 40,000 Mile Volcano."Â Reading...
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Folding, Squash Triangles, and Food Banks
I was looking for a recipe that combined squash and phyllo dough. Ultimately, the method I found for rolling them up was exactly the technique we used in grade school to make paper footballs (and for...
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Calligraphy in Painting by Muslim Women at Berkeley Art Center
Letterforms have character. You might notice this when you choose a font. Or if you receive a handwritten letter. Writing is part of something larger than each of us, a part of culture, an...
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Lichen, Moss, Art, Writing, and a Little Quilt
Lichen, a dual organism (possibly triple) continues to inspire me. It cannot be cultivated, and it only grows in good air. I started drawing it in 2013. I drew it large, on 18 x 24" paper.I began...
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Star 82 Review Issue 6.4 is Live!
I'm happy to report that the twenty-fourth issue, 6.4 of Star 82 Review, the art and literary magazine I founded, edit, and publish, has just been released. This time it is a collection of mostly...
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Year's end is always a prod to take stock on what you did and didn't do. In this case, I'm looking back to see what I read. I read at night, on airplanes, on Saturdays, and because of this in-between...
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4 Uses for Washi Tape
I used to say that all tape was evil, but I've changed my mind. A little. About one kind of tape. Well, two if you count archival linen hingeing tape. Decorative tape printed with words, birds,...
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There's Still Time: nevermindtheart gifts
I have a few new items up at nevermindtheart and can send them out today to whomever you like. (Well, if I don't tell you, who will?)I've brought back the Pop Art Journals: unlined Strathmore drawing...
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Stories and Poems from 2018
I think about Milo in The Phantom Tollbooth a lot, particularly the second line, "When he was in school he longed to be out, and when he was out, he longed to be in." Except for me it goes: When I am...
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Reaching out for the New Year
The new year is a recurring milestone. We can take it or leave it as we like, but it still presses us to examine our lives, or at least the previous year. A couple of things I read recently put me in...
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Fabric Marbling with Pietro Accardi
I started the new year by being a student in a fabric marbling workshop with Pietro Accardi at San Francisco Center for the Book this past Sunday. I don't take many classes, and this was a treat. The...
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Freud on the Couch: Psyche in the Book exhibited at SFCB
The current exhibition at San Francisco Center for the Book looks at the influence of Freud and his inspiration for several artists' books. Titled, Freud on the Couch: Psyche in the Book this traveling...
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New Poem Art Quilt: Everything Is Temporary
Cloth and words are linked. Text is "a written account" and it also comes from "to fabricate." Both "text" and "textile" come from the Latin root, texere. To weave. Words, threads, fabric. It's...
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Revealing a New Blog for Star 82 Review News
To be more flexible I've started a new blog for news from my magazine, Star 82 Review. There I am listing all the new issues, the contributors, guidelines, production progress, nominations for awards,...
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Kitchen Table Suminagashi Experiments
In the Western marbling workshop I took I met a woman who has been doing suminagashi, Japanese marbling, which reminded me of the ink kit I've had for about ten years. It was time to pull it out again....
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So Many Patterns: Trying out Spoonflower
As if I needed something to do. But I'm curious. And gathering information about materials is always helpful for the future. I've known about Spoonflower for a few years. It's a platform where you can...
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Washi Tape Collage Bookmark
Here's a relaxing project that involves only a thick piece of paper, a scissors, and a variety of washi tapes. See previous post about washi tape if you don't know what I'm talking about. It requires...
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Explore. Research. Sketch.
I tell this story over and over because it made such an impact on my process: many years after I graduated, I ran into one of my printmaking professors, one with whom I had taken several courses. "Ken,...
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Then There Was the Codex Book Fair, 2019
It was my first Codex without a bookmaking class to bring. It also meant I had no excuse to buy anything. But there was never any doubt that I would go. I went on Monday, the second day of the fair,...
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