Of course archives and mushrooms are not related, but when there is so much dark and rain …. it is astonishing what you start thinking about…? I got in the car to go to the store and saw these…on a tree… and then the mushroom theme emerged once I was there at Life Source… and […]
Category: Ephemera
Eunice Parsons Thinking Archivally
Eunice Parsons is considering giving her “papers” (and here I mean correspondence, etc., NOT all the paper that is the raw material for collage…!) to the Pacific Northwest Artists Archive at Willamette University. The University library and the University Archivist are committed to building this collection, housing the papers of artists who have worked in […]
Sewing Circle…
ANOTHER interesting time at Project Space this year, watching work unfold, working steadily myself, exchanging ideas. My own work is winding down and I’m finishing my “set” of squares, framing them up, getting ready for the “opening” of our one week show. If you are downtown on first Wednesday (August 7th) 5-8 p.m., come by […]
Carl Hall: Ephemera
Regional artist Carl Hall left a wealth of material behind for his family to deal with after his death in 1996. His wife and daughters have generously donated paintings to many institutions in the Pacific Northwest, sold much work, and sorted and re-formatted more. Still…Carl was prolific and there is the fantastically interesting archival material […]
Week’s Worth
Not a momentous week, but like most of our weeks, filled with the lovely variety of things that make our lives…here’s what I’ve been up to: Check this out people…every Tuesday in May conservationist Tom Fuller will be working on the Hallie Ford Museum of Art’s native basket collection in the lobby so you can […]
“Map of the Table”
Just finishing up my most recent sketchbook project book in preparation for sending it off to the Brooklyn Art Library…maybe it will come to Portland this summer on the Sketchbook Tour??! One more page to go but thought I’d just put it on here today…it’s called “Map of the Table” and I’ve been dragging it […]
Snail Blog Milestone!
I like the notion of keeping in touch. Maybe that’s one reason I like to blog…(but only one… it’s really about images for me…). Back in 2009 my friend Ellen began writing me a postcard every day as a way to keep in touch (AND to use up post cards kicking around the drawers) and […]
Clearing the clutter….
I decided to get rid of all the “tablescapes” and family photos and random stuff on every table in the house so first I cleared off the dining room table… and then cleared everything off the little tables and bookshelves etc… resulting in this! Which, though a mess, did reveal a few hidden gems… a […]
Lamp # 2
Of course there’s a lamp on the other side of the bed too..an inexpensive IKEA or Target lamp with a now glaringly white and spotted shade…CRYING OUT to become one of a pair… and it looks good too…but I’m stopping here… though it is making me want to go around the house with a critical […]
…And So it Begins…
We’re only five days in, but so far I’d say 2013 is behaving like every other year I can remember…routine, sublime, annoying, lovely, impatient, content, creative and MILDLY destructive (it’s the wheelchair, not me…scraping the woodwork, tsk…). So the sun set on our beach idyll… and we came back to the gloomy fog of the […]
On The Way 