Category: Art
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Ubiquitous Obsolescence
Ubiquitous is an adjective that describes seeing something everywhere, so much so that its presence is taken for granted. Dandelions are ubiquitous, they are everywhere, they survive being chopped and mowed, and their deep taproots mean that they also sometimes even survive being uprooted. Plastics are also ubiquitous. They are everywhere, sometimes visible, sometimes invisible,…
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Mahtava: Spectacular Inflatable Art
Mahtava, which is a movable site specific inflatable art installation, is designed to be a show-piece. Tendrils emerge from a pod that seems to breathe, dangling over the central market, moving and changing colors to create joyful fun while the DJ and others jam out. The process of creating “Mahtava,” which means spectacular or awesome…
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Riverway Lullabies
During the summer of 2022, with my schedule shifted from the regular school year, the afternoons felt expansive. I would take my bike and just ride, looking for interesting spaces and people along the Riverway, in Brookline, and along the Esplanade. Having picked up the flute when I began the project, “Songs of Urban Ecology,”…
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Emerging Wonder: A Shadow Ballet
Lewis Carroll played with time and scale throughout Alice in Wonderland in order to reframe the quirks of British culture. It’s publication in 1865 coincided with the end of the American Civil War, and despite optimistic framing at the time, vestiges of both British and American culture still contribute to inequitable systems of power.
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Breathe: Art Lives in Community
“This morning I have been pondering a nearly forgotten lesson I learned in high school music. Sometimes in band or choir, music requires players or singers to hold a note longer than they actually can hold a note. In those cases, we were taught to mindfully stagger when we took a breath so the sound…
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March Spring Winds
March Spring Winds is a contemplation on tensions that coincide as seasonal change crashes into human emergence from the pandemic. Created through a meditative practice on internal ecology, the video consists of a sequential drawn animation combined with an improvisational flute melody to evoke the interplay between complements. As plants sprout and animals emerge from hibernation,…
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Looking Back, Looking Forward
Four years ago this weekend, in the midst of concern over the potential for our country to unravel after the 2016 election, I had an opportunity at the last minute to create something at an arts festival in Ypsilanti, Michigan. My head was a mix of fear, worry, protectiveness, hope, connection, and disconnection. Although my…
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Songs of Urban Ecology: Cathedral of M-14 Fugue
What spaces around you do you ignore? Stop, Observe, Listen. The Second Song to Urban Ecology, this one was actually begun first. It was originally a photo series that I took in one of my favorite parks, located in Ann Arbor, Michigan. M-14 is an expressway that runs between Ann Arbor and Plymouth, which is…
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Make it Out of the Ordinary: Pixel Magic
Join the #pixelmagicmoon challenge and contribute to our collaborative reIMAGINEd FOOLmoon CommUNITY!
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Make it Out of the Ordinary: Faux Luminariaux
This post about making something Out of the Ordinary isthe first of several I will be doing in collaboration with WonderFool Productions as a part of their new initiative, FOOLmoon CommUNITY in which they will enable creative engagement with WonderFool artists both as a response to the current physical isolation, and to deepen and extend…
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First Song to Urban Ecology: Jamaicaway Matins
While natural systems and cities are symbiotic everywhere, there are huge equity gaps across the globe. Higher income areas have more access to open space, and foliage and are therefore more likely to have active and noisy animal populations. There have been many articles about this through the years. One of the most memorable for…
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How to Make: Shadow Puppet Machine for FOOLmoon Reimagined
Join the fun and create a shadow-puppet machine for FOOLmoon Reimagined 2020.
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Bedouin Cocoon: Spring 2001
The unexpected places in which surprises happen are the places where invention happens. Whatever plans I made, the process of creating and performing forced me to push my limits. Those limits left space for the air to pass, and for others to enter and share in the learning. This performance did not have a title when I…
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On the Journey: But What About the Leaves
When I was visiting my father over winter break, I unearthed documentation of artwork that I did twenty years ago. It is funny to think of myself as an artist-practitioner for twenty years. Yet, when I look back at that work it is plain how it connects to my work today, and the red threads in the…
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Thoughts about home
When I moved to the Boston area for graduate school, it was surreal. On the way here from Ypsilanti, Michigan, not quite my home town, but very close, I drove through Canada. Not that exotic, I’ve done this road trip a few times in my life, though customs and border enforcement always makes me nervous.…
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Social Distance Drawing
Doodling is a great way to get things off of your mind, and right now, there are a lot of things on everyone’s minds. In order to doodle with my friends and others, here is a site to doodle together. My plan is to be there around 6pm EDT for the next several days. In…