Wanted to share the process of my first reduction woodcut. Reduction cuts use the same block and cut more after each color. These usually produce very limited editions because the results cannot be reproduced through printing because one block is cut more and more.
This is also the very first time I mixed my own inks using earth pigments. There are quite a few kinks to work out to achieve exact results and even printing each time. Regardless this is an exciting experience.
This is also the first time using my portable press and made quick work of all these layers.
20 of these prints will be sent out next week to a list of people that are all trading post card sized relief prints during # relief conspiracy a group of 550+ artists are participating worldwide. Excited to see what work arrives in the mail.
The prints that don't get sent and may be slightly less than perfect are available to my patrons $15/ month and up members first. These will be a great piece of history to own because I plan on doing more reduction cuts like these and this is my very first 😉
Work in Progress - Wellnest #1
Building nests on many levels. Trying to hold a space for myself so I don’t burnout
This is an act of preservation, and of self care.
As yet another wave of COVID-19 descends and we live a daily unknown, this is a reminder that we are connected.
Even the smallest action of care, of presence matters. These tiny moments with nature are monumental. They provide clues to our own survival.
What moments do you include in your nest, your place of being?
Birds are experts of intuition. They buildand care for the future, utilizing whatever detritus they find in their ecosystems. How can we use what is already on hand to build for future generations?
This and other nests will be on view at the Schlueter Art Gallery, Wisconsin Lutheran College, Milwaukee Sept 10 - Oct 15 along with the work of Beth Stoddard in our combined exhibition “Interconnected”.
46 First Ladies Virtual Exhibition
You can view 46 women’s representations of the 46 first ladies here virtually or view in person at
Arts + Literature Laboratory through Sept 18
Reception Sept 10 7-9pm
Mycelium like Installation
What if you could see the vast networks that lie hidden underfoot, inside the mind, echoed in diverse microscopic structures?
What if you could travel and explore something like these patterns that connect plants, fungi, animals, minds, the full gamut of beingness, AKA all of life?
What if, questions like the ones listed above are what drive my work and also let me selfishly cling to wonder and curiosity with a child’s insatiable thirst.
I think when people tell children to “ grow up” we kill off entire worlds that they would have otherwise created, worlds that could be brilliant solutions.
What if we need curiosity to help us reformat systems and collective existential dread?
Let the children be children and stop demanding that they leave their hidden imaginative lives behind. That goes for all of you adult sized children out there too.
Coming Sept 10 in Milwaukee you’ll get to immerse yourself in an installation of interconnection created in part with crayons :)
