From the Compost Heap header. A pencil style illustration of a compost heap with flowers and plants growing around it. A bee buzzes by and a white rabbit hops by.
  • The why cheap art manifesto. People have been thinking too long that art is a privilege of the museums and the rich. Art is not business! It does not belong to banks and fancy investors. Art is food. You can't eat it but it feeds you. Art has to be cheap and available to everybody. It needs to be everywhere because it is inside of the world. Art soothes pain. Art wakes up sleepers. Art fights against war and stupidity. Art sings hallelujah! Art is for kitchens! Art is like good brea! Art is like green trees! Art is like white clouds in the blue sky! Art is cheap! Hurrah! Bread and Puppet Glover, Vermont. 1984.

    Purchase this print from Bread & Puppet.

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  • Dusky photo of a purple hyacinth bean vine flowering with the compost heap in the background
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  • The self seeded sunflowers between overgrown garden beds are thriving. Grass overgrows the beds.
    Baby birdhouse gourd perhaps an inch and a half long.

    Self seeded sunflowers (from the bird feeder) and our first baby birdhouse gourd!

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  • Our chaos garden has turned feral.

    After being gone for a week and sick for another here’s a look at how it’s going. And it’s going to stay this overgrown for a while.

    One of my chronic illnesses causes heat intolerance so it is what it is at this point. (I can do a bit in evenings, but can’t keep pace with the grass.)

    The perennials that hold space against the grass are key. I keep adding more of them, but we can only afford to do so much at once. 🤷

    I show this to not idealize the chaos gardening approach. It works better in some seasons than others. Between the heat and the rain the witch grass is currently winning. My main point is that you don’t have to be a perfect gardener to enjoy gardening.

    Brick house with an undulating garden bed overrun with grass. A black armillary sphere and purple russian sage pierce the weeds.
    Garden bed along fence completely overrun with grass. A tall butterfly bush towers to the left.
    The self seeded sunflowers between overgrown garden beds.

    The self seeded sunflowers are a bright light. They’ve attracted goldfinch which we don’t often see.

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  • My zine making area with Spectrum and Chaos Gardening zines, paper cutter, and watercolor wash circles.

    Restocking the zine shop!

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  • Grass overrunning a garden bed. A small white flowering gaura is surrounded by 3 square paving stones.

    Real life chaos gardening for you. The back of the bed is overrun with grass so trying to defend this beauty with some spare stepping stones.

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  • Papertowels with blueberry stains on a glass oven cooktop beside a bunch of bananas and a papertowel with a note that says, "Do not throw away!"

    Sometimes being an artist means preserving paper towels with blueberry stains.

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  • Gazebo of green pipes with brown mulch inside and a few bachelor buttons and tall grass outside

    Added cardboard and mulch to the Wendy House.

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  • Local Color Studio Gallery a gray and white building with a colorful paint spattered logo and a bright turquoise door. A large baptisia plant grows to the side and a large metal sculpture of triangles stacked in both positive and negative space.
    Local Color Studio sign with a colorful paint spattered logo and a hang in negative space. A variety of potted plants are beneath.
    White sink with colorful paint spatters.

    My work was recently in the Local Color Gallery in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

    Here are some photos of their lovely space. I love the paint all over the bathroom sink.

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  • Laptop on desk in the living room surrounded by homeschool materials, dressing up box, shelves, boxes, clutter, and a gleeman's cloak on a dress form.

    I’ve accepted that I can’t always work in my lovely studio. So earlier this year I set up a workspace in the living room. And I am getting SO much done.

    Today I worked 3 hours here passing on copy edits for my anthology.

    Thankfully, the way my brain works, physical space becomes invisible if I can enter hyperfocus. Sound is more challenging for me, but I’m learning to work with the Zelda soundtrack.

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