Here's a test print of a Minnesota loon scene I carved in January. I still need to clean up some of the river area and refine the flock details, but I'm hoping to complete printing a small edition next week.

Well, 2026 has already been a lot. I’m spending some time this weekend hunkering down with the sketchbook to just keep plugging along at a few ideas for the year.

As 2024 winds down, I'm embarking on a daily linocut practice for December —a way to process everything this year has brought (keeping up with the news cycle, yes, but also in my small personal world) . I'm not entirely sure how the imagery will evolve, but I'm excited to see how this daily exercise shapes my work.

I recently carved a little zine/book thing to experiment with some sketches about the difficulties of capturing ideas. It’s about the maze, the alphabet soup, the endless noise of everything going on, and the tension of working through this noise. Ideas can feel like the tide approaching and shifting my focus. The clear ideas arrive when I’m not able to give proper attention and seem fleeting. Trying to go back to the ideas later can be fruitless, like an unpotted plant left in the sun.