10 rainy days! At least, that’s what the weather says. Still feeling sluggish and healing, so I tackled the task of sorting out my fabric and mending and Etsy piles in the work room. Oh, my goodness. So much work, and so much inspiration just looking at all the fabric! This 1920s dress from my [...]

Hope everyone’s holidays were wonderful – I’ve spent mine healing and being cozy! I seriously think all the well-wishes and magic energies are helping me – I’m healing so so much faster and can walk around, etc – last time I had a similar surgery, it was weeks before walking easily & feeling weak in [...]

found image In order to soothe my autumn-needing-soul, I’ve started thinking about Dia de los Muertos already. Summer ends, the earth starts closing up shop for winter, the cycles of life surround us.  Rituals celebrating the deaths of ancestors have been observed by cultures all over the planet.  All Souls’ Day in European folklore and [...]

I was going to keep the ‘the ones you know’ series to ladies, but I also have some of thems-other-folks whom people should know about. I picked this painting up from Kyle Ranson the other day as part of his blow-out art sale. He was about to head to the east coast for another collab [...]

This is Nicole and her mama when she was wee. What a gorgeous shot. Maybe I’m feeling sentimental lately, but I’ve decided to do a series focusing on some amazing ladies whom I know. The first in the series is Nicole, who just sent me an amazing parcel filled with so many goodies. We’d lost [...]

Leroi Jones and Diane Di Prima at the Cedar Tavern, April 5, 1960 I’ve been obsessed, OBSESSED with Diane DiPrima since I was 14 and came across her poems in an anthology, devouring everything I could find after that. Memorizing chunks of Loba, her epic poem that continues to be written. Living vicariously through her Recollections [...]

When I walked into Eliza Fernand‘s solo show at Fort Gallery, gallery owner and curator Vanessa Maida gave me a grin and said “You’re going to love this!” & she was right – I adored it. I work a lot in psychedelic patchwork alchemy, & Eliza Fernand’s patchwork and crochet stalactites and stalagmites make my [...]

Oh goodness, I feel like it’s been ages since I updated.  I was going to wait to put this up as I wanted to do a giveaway-in-return when I posted about it, but I’ve been so busy!! So I will just do some show and tell instead. I was lucky lucky & got this fabulous [...]

Lauren Dukoff art opening at Eleanor Harwood this Friday. That’ll get me out of the house!

Growing up in Vermont meant summer at Bread & Puppet’s Domestic Resurrection Circus. It was an important part of the formative years of my life, visually, politically, and socially. I was exposed to communal camping, food, working together, art on a scale I hadn’t imagined before, and life life life. We’d camp all weekend, bring [...]

I love coming across groundbreaking female artists from the past, it’s so refreshing and inspiring! By 1921 Madame Yevonde had become a well-known and respected portrait photographer. In the early 1930s, Yevonde began experimenting with colour photography. The introduction of colour photography was not universally popular; indeed photographers and public alike were so used to [...]

Christmas always makes me want to be in New York, though the last time I spent a Christmas in NY I was probably 10 years old. Every holiday of my childhood included visits to my grandparents, and my great grandfather. I even had chicken pox one year. I’d sleep in the car on the drive, [...]