My nest.

My nest.

Art and Creativity

How do you describe the distance left by years of separation. The kind of distance that doesn’t grow, but rather, still feels like the pain of that first moment of separation.  That emptiness, that feeling of something, some part of your body being ripped off...
I’m building a nest

I’m building a nest

Art and Creativity

Yes, that’s right, a nest. A great big giant empty nest. It’s an installation piece that is placed out on the foreshore while the tide is at its lowest point and then removed when the tide is coming back in. When I heard about it, I started thinking about...
Imagination or Inspiration?

Imagination or Inspiration?

Art and Creativity

Which is better? I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately; which one is better to facilitate solid creative outcomes, the actual work. I flutter about, daydream and get distracted a lot. But 2015 is going to be the year of productivity! Are we better when we...
Connections with the earth

Connections with the earth

Ritual & Sacred Living

Sometimes we forget we have bodies. That is such a true statement for me. If I’m in the studio, or at the computer, anytime I am engrossed in what I am doing, I can forget to move, forget the connection I have with my body. I’m reading a book called ‘The Art of...
Summer Solstice Celebration

Summer Solstice Celebration

Art and Creativity

So, here we are, right smack bang in the middle of summer. So much has happened since my winter solstice. When we have big and profound events occur in our life, it gives us markers from which we measure time. Looking back, my journey from there to here, from dark to...