Facets V - Butterfly Wings Cut Paper Art

8 x 10 inch paper cutting. Currently hanging at The Bulldog at 1715 Main Street in Kansas City.

“Harvest Moon” Prints Now Available!

8 x 10 inch giclee prints of my original paper cutting titled “Harvest Moon” are now available in my Etsy store!

Tea Time

3 x 4 inch paper cutting.

New Event Announcements!

I’ve got a few new events coming up - and I’ll elaborate more later on each one. But here goes:

• First Friday of March - Showing work alongside Toine Quinn at The Bulldog in Kansas City’s Crossroads District.
• March 3 - March 28 - Three works hanging in the “March Madness” group show at 1109 Gallery in Lawrence, KS, with an opening reception on March 13 from 7-9pm.
• First Friday in April - Paper cutting exhibit at Wearhaus in Kansas City’s Crossroads District.
• June 5 - 6 - Accepted into the juried Mountain/ Plains Art Fair at Mulvane Art Museum in Topeka, KS.
A good way to find out about events automatically is to join me on Facebook!

***Hope to see you out there somewhere***

When you live in an old house and it’s cold outside..

..and you work from home and you’re freezing at your desk when you’re trying to work on project drafts:
1. Put on stocking cap and scarf and fingerless gloves.
2. Crank the heater up to a temperature slightly less than burning.
3. Sit on your hands as often as possible.
4. Drink lots of body warming fluids.
5. Find a temporary activity that gets you moving around.
6. Write slightly sarcastic blog posts about how you’re freezing to death.
7. Take pictures of things, like rusty toy Jeeps and snowy outdoors.

And then write about your temporary activity. Mine was to dig out my other 3 600 series Polaroid cameras that I had stuffed away. Two of these also came free from my favorite thrift store (read previous post here). I had one pack of Polaroid film which expired in 1995. I’m always hopeful, but alas it was nooooo goooood. But it still produced a pretty picture.. in my freezing opinion.

Back to work. I’m warmer now.

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3 x 4.5 inch paper cutting matted & framed in a 5 x 7 inch frame. Sold.

We Must Cultivate Our Garden

One of my favorite books of all time is Candide by Voltaire - in my opinion, a perfect reflection of the nature of humans and evidence that humanity doesn’t evolve and history repeats itself (I’m a cynic at times). One of my favorite lines comes at the end when Candide says, “We must cultivate our garden.” A marking of the end of their misery, the characters that withstood are able to embrace happiness in hard, simple labor.

I think in my utopian dream world, I’d be self-sustaining. I’ll start by growing my own herbs for cooking: I spent my snowed-in Sunday afternoon watering and fluffing 72 peat moss pods and filling them up with Thyme, Rosemary & Lavender seeds. It was refreshing. I can’t wait to smell them.

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Asides

• "For if one always saw like this, one would never want to do anything else. -Aldous Huxley, On Art and Artists #