Digesting New York
My Fairy Godmother Aunt Susan packs a lot into a moment, so once we got to the apartment, we started off right. And hit the ground running. Our cab from the airport drove us right by one of the things...
View ArticleMary’s not a PVC pipe
I’ve been thinking a lot about who is the Mother Mary that I have known. My past experience of her is basically a Nobody. Someone who Jesus sits next to. Or on. She also rides on a donkey. She is...
View ArticleWho’s the naked
lady sitting on the turtle shell? Well. Now then, it’s Mother Mary! She created everything. Which gives her license to sit naked. Where ever she wants. She doesn’t like the roughness of the shell, but...
View ArticleUndersides
I couldn’t resist carving the underside of the turtle shell. Partly because it is so beautiful and partly because the shell begged. Beginning of vertebrae. My model propped up. Lots of looking. I’m...
View ArticleThe Tides In
I drove to Maine. It took a long time, but I had some great places to stay with old timey friends and family too. Good company. We live so far apart! I went through tunnels and over and under bridges...
View ArticleTwo Thoughts About Mother Mary
number 1: Here’s Mother Mary in the beginnings as plasticine. I was thinking about Mary and how things that can’t be touched can still be stolen. And about how Mary in the church is really good at...
View ArticleDarkness Covered
Darkness Covered The water that’s in the harbor. Mother Mary was on the way to the lilies, snails and beavers. She said to stop for a moment and I did. Without speaking I wondered. Her suggestion was:...
View ArticleWhat matters most
My many-years-lawyer-friend at the coffee shop this morn asked why I would write about my work. Scraplins from bug and casbah makings. I toad him that my art does not speak for its self. Which is not...
View ArticlePlaster Sobriety
Things are all set up to pour plaster molds. Of Marys. Takes some kind of focus. Running off to the Land of Receiving. No stars and owls and cosmos and soul pairs cleaning chakras and all that is. No...
View ArticleOur Lady of Fire & Wood
The ladies are waiting. to placed in the kiln We put them in tomorrow. They’ve given clear instructions. Their likes and dislikes. Some of their communications have come in blissful moments of words...
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