When I was growing up, I drew a lot. I spend many days on my belly, with a pile of papers and a pencil in my little fingers. Family friends gifted stacks of blank papers from the discarded corners of their lives. At school in those days, we had actual functioning art classes. We were given assignments and graded on …
Making Photographs
I am beginning to record some ideas for photographic essays I am planning to embark on: 1. Wabi-Sabi “Wabi-sabi is about the minor and the hidden, the tentative and the ephemeral; things so subtle and evanescent they are invisible to vulgar eyes” -Leonard Koren “Beauty is thus an altered state of consciousness, an extraordinary moment of poetry and grace” -Leonard …
Wonder-Walks and Fun-Rides
Julia Cameron is a genius. Morning pages do it again and I recently tried something previously scary and new-I took my bike on the bus down to West Hollywood for an adventure! Here’s a toolkit of essentials for such wonder-walks and fun-rides:
The Inspirer
After so many years since I last took the test, my results are still the same. If anything, I’m consistent!! ENFP – The Inspirer You are lucky because you are good at a variety of different things. In general you are successful at things you are interested in,
Exploring Wabi-Sabi as a Subject
In relation to my previous post about beauty in imperfection, I would like to explore further the Japanese notion of wabi-sabi. Pondering what this means to me has quite astonishingly made me aware of the unconscious common thread that binds all the objects and experiences that impassions me, which I now realize embodies this very concept:
Ojai
There is a certain wildness about the California wilderness that is not present back East. The mountains are steeper, the roads and trails longer, more barren, the plants at once more menacing and thorny. Beauty bares fangs. Maybe it is the constant blazing sunshine, the bleached empty riverbeds and the scarcity of running water that conjures up panicked images of …
Beauty in Imperfection
I am currently reading Angela Faris Belt’s amazingly poignant and inspirational book, The Elements of Photography. In it she expounds the importance for a consistent subject to be used throughout the assignments in the book. The subject should be appealing to both the photographer and the audience as it should engage both parties on a deeper level. The objective of …
A Gerber Fancy
I had a crush on this Gerber daisy once. I stared at it everyday until it dropped its pretty petals.
Hand-built Homes of the Imaginary Kind: Phoenix Commotion
Dan and Marsha Phillips are my heroes of the built world. They craft beautiful otherworldly homes, by hand (by hand!) for folks who can’t afford to buy a home. They assist in the loan application process and walk the owners through a hand-built home from recycled and discarded building materials, objects and whimsies. It is absolutely incredible. Wander over to …
Countdown: 3 Days!
Three days till the unveiling of The TreeSpace Studio website! Is this possible??? I feel the familiar long lost pitter patter of real panic settling in. Up and running in 3 days is a tall order when no code has been generated yet, only a pile of fireworks files…I will press on…stay tuned!