What if you could see stars in the day?

 

A Sketch While Sitting Outside

 

Isn't Love Good? A Poem Comic With My Five Year Old

A poem comic written by my daughter, Juni. Illustrated by Juni & me (mom). 

Juni wrote this poem weeks ago. As soon as she wrote it I said, "This is amazing!" and hung it up in my studio. 

Since then, I’ve thought about how I would illustrate it. This morning, after marveling at several of her drawings- I asked her for help! You should’ve seen her face when I said “And we can use my pencils!” 

It was so much fun to color in her characters, draw beside her, and absorb some of her imaginative, spontaneous, five year old creative energy. 

Listen Closely For The Soft Hum Of Inspiration

I used to go to this place and that place, not expecting to find any inspiration for my art. Yet, as if by magic, I always found it. This becomes a powerful thing: to be able to go anywhere or do anything and find a sliver of inspiration, gleaming in the sunlight.

Inspiration can hide in the most mundane of places. When you are doing the dishes or stacking sticks or gathering trash, listen closely. It is almost imperceptible.

Did anyone notice this inspiration lying on the ground? You notice it and it looks like a opaque stone. But when you pick it up and hold it close to your eye, it reflects so much light that no one else can see.

Everything Is Temporary

Stars Falling From The Night Sky

 

The Sky Was Made Of Leaves

A Gift From The Universe

 

What am I supposed to do with this?

Lie In The Grass For Just A Little While

It's okay to lie in the grass for a little while feeling listless, uninspired, and invisible. However, do not stay there too long. Gather yourself up and keep moving. There are magical things to find, but they do not just step out of the clouds and present themselves. They need to be searched for, excavated out of the ground and held tightly. 

Wave Form

Wave form, 2009

I take a lot of walks

This is a continuous, 35mm, cross processed roll of film of branches found in Los Angeles. While walking along my routes I would aim my Diana mini camera up at the trees and take photographs. These are made on different days, with different trees, on different walks. I like to think that I was able to photograph how I feel while walking through trees. How I experience the solitude of walking. A place that exists apart from the realities of the noise and crowdedness of the city.

Drawings Circa 2009 - 2012

 



 

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26 days, Some inspiration for writing, photos, drawings or dreaming

airplanes

banality

circular

diamonds

effervescent

forest

galloping

houses

icy

jive

kelp

letting

moss

nod

oneiric

perhaps

question

rhythm

sky

turning

underwater

vase

wind

xray

yes

zest

I just found this photograph of my two lovely aunties and my beautiful mother in the center.

Untitled Sea & Clouds

An unfinished drawing, a portal to the sea horizon. These weird clouds are what happen when I do not draw from a reference.

strips

 

One of my favorite (little) people

cutting up the landscape

Collaged c-print, 2012

External and Internal

 

 

 

 

 

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