cairn

There’s a string that moves to the center of the earth, gravity found — a long running spin of whirling energy. Winds know it. Trees sense it. Waters flow to it. Organisms abide by it. Storms, the spinning whorl of energy, tornados, hurricanes, the casting...

Oysterlight

I can recall this discussion, a long time back, decades ago, about the concept of oysterlight. And it took me a long time to think about, to understand, what that meant. The light of the oyster. Oyster’d light. Cloister light? It was with my mother, and Kenneth...

Raiment

There was a woman, the mother of my children, my former wife, who was born, decades ago, this day. 2.9.55. She passed, sadly for us all, a couple of years back. Many hold happy memories of her. I keep hearing that. Liked and loved. And, looking back, I remember that...

Creative action | reaction

Creative action | reaction 1.18.08 How to work? How do I work? How do you work? A conversation in exploring creative development with ModeStudios Robert Bonniol. How is it that sometimes the first idea is the most compelling, as a designer in process? What happens in...

Another Annum | Matthew Girvin

It’s another year, since Matthew’s death. And I’ve got him all around me, so I’m okay with knowing that loss. That is what it comes to — how long it takes to really know that loss. You can hear about it, you can see it, even — but...

2008 | 55 | 10

Hello. 2008. Goodbye. 2007. I believe, in a way, that numbers symbolize something beneath the quickly seen calculation. Personally — I love the 8.   And I love drawing the 8. Collecting 8s. Last year, the outward spiral of the 9 spoke to the movement of that...