Long post! TL:dr… I’m going to France for an art residency next year. At this place, Chateau d’ Orquevaux. Yep. I’m doing this. I applied on a semi-whim in December 2023, knowing that odds of being accepted were somewhere between 20% and never. I make a habit of applying every couple of years to *big*…
Read More Art Residency 2025: Chateau d’Orquevaux, part 1After the suspiciously-fast progress of ‘Sun Bird’, I started thinking about more book art sculptures with carved-wood bird spines. Lo, I found the Second Bird! Hailing from Bisbee AZ but made who-knows-where, of two-toned mesquite or another desert wood, and very woodpecker-like…this 11″ long sculpture has a flat back that will be ideal to support…
Read More The Second and Third BirdsIf you read this blog you might have seen my fabric panels for Ann Morton’s vast and amazing ‘Violet Protest Project’, currently on display at the Phoenix Art Museum. While building the first set of 8×8″ panels last year I was struck by how well the idea would work in book art form: red and…
Read More Violet Nation Book ArtAfter five satisfactory years, NineStar Press and I are temporarily parting ways. I’ve enjoyed working with this vital LGBTQIA publisher, and plan to do so again with new work in the future. That means that my space opera MORO’S PRICE, my fantasy THE PURIST, and my contemporary erotic romance MAESTRO are temporarily unavailable, until I…
Read More Unpublished and PublishedBackstory: there’s a virtual gallery opening today that I’d wanted to attend, at a specific time. I have artwork in this show, I’m proud of the work, and I love the gallery. I also am lucky enough in the midst of a pandemic to *have a FT job with benefits*. It’s nearing the end of…
Read More Artists explaining themselvesFrom here I cannot see two oceans. Standing astride this ridge, one foot Touching sunset The other, night. On each side, cool winds taste the same. From here I see no difference between Factory or farm, trailer or mansion, No hint of hand or ideology behind The lights that in distant valleys bloom. Thrumming…
Read More Continental DivideI just learned that my long-time mentor and art representative Bill Stewart passed last month. It’s sad news. I’m having difficulty processing it, then I feel guilty, because far closer folks to Bill have the full weight of that grief on them. So I’m going to celebrate what Bill and his wife Vicky mean to…
Read More In Memoriam: William ‘Bill’ StewartI’m vain enough to be really happy about this review of my book art. Especially when *someone else* gets why I make art in the first place. Especially when this comes from ASU, which has an incredible group of book artists. Here’s a bigger shot of ‘Twilight Arc’.
Read More Book Art Review!These are coming along nicely. The teeny rocketships are all embroidered, and now both sides of the text blocks are sewn together.  I debated hand-sewn seams to anchor the folds, but my hands and schedule said ‘nope’. So my trusty old Elna sewing machine did the work, in about a quarter of the time…
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