somewhere between
today & tomorrow
on that illusive Leap Day
Shaker leader
Mother Ann Lee was born
29 Feb 1736-8 September 1784

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Mother Ann Lee embodied
cosmic feminist karma
bringing a new religion into the world
founded on principle so radical
that they endured persecutions

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swiftly
Shaker swift
chrome yellow

pink possibilities

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sun drifting into rooms
onto walls gleaming with varnish
onto chrome yellow cabinets
onto reddish yellow floors
 
warmth emanates
energizing yellow
rises out of woodwork
rises into hearts

—excerpt from ROYGBIV poem & work in progress for ‘anything but drab’ coming to Fruitlands Museum in May

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Tis the gift to be simple and as Thomas Merton noted in his September 1962 letter to the Shaker scholar, Edward Deming Andrews,
 
 “The gift to be simple is in fact the gift to be true,
and what we need most in our life today,
personal national and international is the truth.”

subtle sky

good morning
studio
book pages for
'anything but drab'

Women Walking to Water
opens tomorrow, Feb 7, 5-7pm

Featuring: Suzi Banks Baum, Brece Honeycutt, Melanie Mowinski, Sarah Pike, Lori Spencer, Jessica Yurkofsky

Feb 7- March 28, 2025

Gallery 51, 51 Main Street, North Adams, MA

[fallowness, double sided risograph on milkweed paper, 14 x 8 1/2”]

small
trapezoid

Installing yesterday at MCLA Gallery 51
using the mica gathered from Canal St in 1984 when I worked at Pearl Paint. A big crate fell off a truck-what a treasure!

Women Walking to Water 
Feb 7- March 28
Opening: Friday 2/7, 5-7pm

51 Main Street, North Adams, MA

www.mcla.edu/mcla-in-the-...

just released by Early American Literature--a podcast about our project,'meetinghouse'

Listen here
earlyamericanliterature.org/index.php/po...

caught

disbursement

snow crystals
tree portal

"color as building blocks"