Been making native plant cyanotypes for my California naturalist program with the Santa Monica Mountains Fund. It’s a great time to plant native plants and support our NPS and SAMO any way we can 💙

Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.

This was such a satisfying project, and one in which I realized for the first time how much my whole life had been spent in a manscape, in places where almost everything was named after men.

New commissioned piece made with recycled fabrics and natural dyes 🌈

Rain 🌧️ 💗

Logwood dye on various fabrics 💜🖤💜

New piece made with naturally dyed and gifted fabrics 🌈🌈

Such a fun opening of 9x9: Contemporary Quilts & Containers at Palos Verdes Art Center ! Really excited to be part of this show 💗

New/old painting project just begun 💙 - another collaboration with @caitparker.bsky.social who bleached plants into this beautiful blue canvas a few years ago. I’m just getting back to it and now I get to excavate this rich surface to find the painting 🎨

I keep this quote in the front of my journal. Sharing it here today. “Art is restoration: the idea is to repair the damages that are inflicted in life, to make something that is fragmented—which is what fear and anxiety do to a person—into something whole.” —Louise Bourgeois, Artist (1911-2010)

Desktop studio situation 🐈‍⬛

Thank you for coming out to Dream Machine at The Middle Room Gallery 🌈 It was wonderful to see friends and be in community after the heartbreak of the fires. The closing reception is Sunday February 23rd from 1-3 pm.

DREAM MACHINE opens tomorrow night at The Middle Room gallery ❤️