V In Everything

Category: art

  • Lost Studio

    I haven’t been painting much lately and it doesn’t feel good. For the six years that we have lived in this house, the basement (really the ground floor) has been a huge mess. Part workshop, part gym, part storage – all mess. It has taken all that time and multiple attempts to finally turn it…

  • Collage as Curation

    Collage as Curation

    I have been aware of collage as a medium for a few years now, ever since I followed a then-grad student on tumblr who mentioned that she occasionally did collage. This was the time that I first heard of Mod-Podge. Not too long after that I acquired my own jar of Mod-Podge and then it…

  • On Being Unteachable

    I often feel as though I am unteachable when it comes to art. I am often so impatient that I just want to start doing the thing and make mistakes (that were entirely avoidable) but at least I’d be doing something! I can figure out or research how to fix those mistakes in the future,…