Tag: process
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ICAD Prep 2026
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ICAD — the daily Index Card a Day project hosted by Tammy Garcia of Daisy Yellow — kicks off June 1. This will be my return after a year off to have my daughter, and I’ve been preparing cards.
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Create Like a Child
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Over these last six months, I have finished exactly one art journal spread, and for good reason: we welcomed our first child to the world.
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Both/And
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What does one do when it feels like the world as we know it might be ending? Anything I might say or do feels like too much or not enough. On one hand, I want to acknowledge and bear witness to big global and political crises and the sense of…
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Process Over Outcome
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Last week, I went to a dress rehearsal for Enno Poppe’s musical composition Strom. The piece sounded like an orchestra tuning its strings, or a child’s first concert: discordant, uncomfortable, and strange. (Listen to a small sample of it here.) Poppe created the piece by stretching single intervals — the…
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How to Paint Like a Child
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Children’s art is one of my greatest inspirations: it’s intuitive and impulsive, without the confines of “should” and “can’t”. Kids don’t have any sense of limitation, or any reason to doubt their own abilities. Picasso famously said “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist…