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  • Compost Theory of Life

    Compost Theory of Life

    When you are composting there are two types of materials that you need to include: browns and greens. The browns are your sticks, your cardboard, paper, egg shells, coffee grounds, dried leaves. These are the things that left to their own devices will just sit there doing nothing. They are stable. The greens are the…

  • Let It Go

    Since I started taking painting more seriously at the beginning of last year I have felt a creeping anxiety about taking my art to the next level. Not necessarily skill-wise, though there is that too, but more in the “become a professional artist” sort of a way. All signs (books, articles, blog posts, videos, etc)…

  • The Nature of Creativity and Originality in Art

    I often worry that I’m not very creative. I don’t really come up with out of the box ideas or with anything genuinely novel. I do like making things that are artistic though, which colloquially falls under the “creative person” umbrella. But I don’t think I really do anything new or unique. The thing that…

  • Me (2025)

    While researching open calls and artist opportunities online, I stumbled upon the Fabric Workshop and Museum. It’s located in Philadelphia and having read a bit about it, I vaguely recall seeing it from the street, considering its proximity to Reading Terminal Markets, and wanting to visit, but have not yet done so. In any case,…

  • Sacred Salt

    There must be something strangely sacred about salt. It is in our tears and in the sea. – Kahlil Gibran I first came across this quote on my favorite place on the internet: tumblr. I thought nothing of it for a long time. I had simply copied the quote in the notes app on my…

  • Simplify, Simplify, Simplify

    I have recently been diagnosed with ADHD and what a relief it has been to finally have a name and an explanation for all of the struggles I’ve faced throughout my life. One of those struggles has been my easy distractibility. While one could spin it as a superpower of creativity, in practice it means…

  • 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,…