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Category Archives: Drawing

Traditional Chinese Paper and Bamboo Kite

Last week, I experimented with making a kite in the style of a traditional bamboo and paper, Chinese model. I was working from the one photo I was able to take of my friend’s kite before her dog ate and destroyed it. I think the lightness, colors, design, size and shape are amazing. Splitting the [...]

Poppy Season

This time of year, springtime in California, poppies bloom, and at night, close.

Flaros : Logo Design

My friend Ariadni met with me a couple weeks ago to talk about her new business importing goods from Greece. She showed me piles of beautiful sandals, woven towels, pillows and photographs from her time there, asking me to put together a logo for her business, Flaros. I was blown away by these old structures, [...]

Orchid

Been thinking about orchids this past week. In June, I love wandering around in the woods in Vermont looking for them. There is one stretch of stream in the kingdom that just wanders around and back onto itself, creating little islands and rivulets among the roots of old cedar. There are plants that pop up [...]

Undir Niðri Poster : Concept to Hanging

Part of a series of posts about a residency at Hlaðan in Iceland. In designing the poster to accompany the exhibition and performance that Kristin and I put together, we took a trip to Frida Franka, an incredible antique shop in Reykjavik. There were piles and mazes of old collections, as though whole kitchens, workshops, [...]