“I do not resent the rain”
Glancing through sketchbooks, I ran across a note jotted down during a particularly gray sketch of weather at the end of winter: "I do not resent the rain anymore. I…
24-hour poetry, froghoppers, and trust
I'm paying attention to the shapes of ferns, to the thunderheads building in the afternoon skies, to the changing voices of the frogs. It's the end of May, dragonflies dart…
Great is the matter of birth and death
I woke up early this morning and created this digital collage. The Art Department's office manager, Sue, died unexpectedly this week. She will be greatly missed. We've had four deaths…
Arrival
There’s a yellow barn on the side of a hill I drive by several times a week, whizzing by it, and it’s always just another node in a chain of…
Must be cabin fever
It's a gray day in January, and I'm thinking about the fine perfect details of the beech leaves still hanging in the trees in the woods. And I'm thinking about the thousand-year-old bristlecone pine trees holding tightly to a certain cliff I know and have visited so many times in Southern Utah; and I'm watching a fire burning in the woodstove. Dead trees warm me.
Sometimes I can’t sleep (3:45 a.m.)
Sometimes I can’t sleep, and it’s ok. Moments within the past weeks keep flowing: D. talking, crying, about sitting at the side of her dying mother. T. defending his art…
Call for participation in “The eloquence remains” film-poem project
Want to be involved in a collaborative film-poem project? We're looking for various readings of (or responses to) this short poem: The eloquence remains — seems to — even as I…
We Dropped Our First Really Big Tree
So we dropped our first really big tree the other day: an old, dead elm along one of the walking trails through the woods. We had been eyeing it since…
“O Now” Collage
I don't know what it is about letterforms I find in the recycling bin. Now and then I have to pull out the recycling, rip out a few letterforms, and…
“On a Prophet” curated into Visible Verse Poetry Film Festival 2014
http://vimeo.com/99663499 "On a Prophet" — a collaboration with poet Kathleen Roberts from Duluth, Minnesota — was curated into the Visible Verse Festival 2014. The poetry film festival will be held…
“Do the Work” typographic exercise
A typographic exercise based on Sol LeWitt's advice to Eva Hesse.
11 Things I Have Learned Renovating the Farmhouse
1. First, as cute and as fun as they are, cats are no help at all when you're working in the attic. In short, cats make terrible assistants. 2. Don't leave tools…
“Farm” Digital Collage, or Enjoying the Mess
A digital collage based on pics taken around Paula's parents farm a few years ago. It's great fun to work with existing forms from a specific environment — numbers on…
“One point is being generous” — after Austin Kleon’s newspaper blackouts
One point is being generous do the work
The eloquence remains — seems to —
( a sketch ) • The eloquence remains — seems to — even as I forget to watch for it (time and time again)
In the Studio: Work in Progress
Work in progress: a redesign of Spokane Public Radio's visual identity, a new visual narrative, email designs for Indiana University, and more. A few screen grabs.
Resupporting the Rafters: Before and After
A few before and after pics of recent attic work. We removed the old gable roof structure that was part of the original, smaller house decades ago, and reused the…