Thrilled that Maternal Fabric, a short film I created with MN author Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew, will screen at MplsSt. Paul Intnl Film Festival, April 2-13. Part of shorts program “A Sense of Place.” [links in bio] @themaincinema.bsky.social #MSPIFF #MSPIFF44 #MSPFilm #TheMainCinema #MoviesAtTheMain

As I often do when the new year approaches, I tweaked my website to make it more accurate to the current iteration of me. The biggest change this year is my color palette!

#artistsofbluesky #interdisciplinaryart
#multimediastories
#documentaryfilm

good morning. today, i’d like to introduce you to my heart. this is Holton the Rescue Hound when he was a youngster. he is, of course, a good boy. #dogs

"Maybe our world will grow kinder eventually. Maybe the desire to make something beautiful is the piece of God that is inside each of us."—Mary Oliver

From my archive: a video collage from photo of mural at my almamater MFA@CIIS, layered with art by my science-inspired, writer/visualartist friend Kate, who also acquainted me with the music-Glow/Todd Edwards from the animated musical mystery comedy film Hoodwinked
#bewhoyouare #interdiscplinaryart

A short reel from a story I created about a #toxicwaste dump in #StPaul, #MN by the #MississippiRiver. Thanks to Friends of the Mississippi for the recent tour. The dump is on land owned by Ford Motor Company and is in an area considered sacred by the Dakota people who were the early inhabitants.

“I am not that lion battling an enemy. / Confronting myself keeps me busy enough.”

—Rumi, excerpt from Ghazal 1523 in GOLD translated by Haleh Liza Gafori

(Gafori brings Rumi’s poetry beautifully alive for me in her translations)

“…while the need for long-range vision grows more acute, our attention spans are shrinking, as we text and tweet in a hermetic, narcissistic Now.”—Marcia Bjornerud, Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World