Art and Photography
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Mira Mobile Prize 2020
I’m so excited and honored to have “the weight of hearts” selected as one of 150 images projected at the Mira Mobile Prize 2020 Exhibition in Porto, Portugal (!). The exhibition opened last night, June 19, and will run for one month at the Mira Forum in Porto. Mira also did a Facebook Live during…
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we build with what we can: the process
I have some work coming out soon in a chapbook and I was asked by the editor to show some of my work in process in video footage. I no longer had almost any images from the stages of the work I had submitted to them. But I had a few images from the process…
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Looking back at 2019
The past couple of years I’d not been able to focus on art as much because I started a new business (a Pilates studio). However, 2019 was highlighted by two things that meant a lot to me art-wise. The first was getting published in (and on the cover of!) ONLY magazine and the second was…
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Instead of the Scheduled Run…Play with Fog and Sun
I laced up my shoes this morning to do a short run and found everything covered once again (like it is so often in October/November) in a beautiful, gauzy mist, slightly heavier than usual. So I ended up taking a leisurely photographic walk up the road as the sun came up–and finished with a super…
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Happy Halloween!
Happy Halloween, everyone! I created a few pieces (initially posted on Instagram) with this All Hallows’ Eve in mind. As I created the second one, “Run Away! Run Away!,” it brought me back to a repetitive nightmare I used to have as a child. In that dream, I was chased through the woods by something…
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Not Quite Morning
I walked into the kitchen this morning and saw the yard was covered in fog. The sun streamed itself through tree limbs and mist. I immediately rushed outside and stayed out so long it almost make me late for work. This image is from one of the photos I took. I called this piece “Not…
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