Daily Linocuts
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.
In the Thick of It
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.
Rabbit Hole
I’ve found myself getting back into bookbinding and longing for art history lectures lately. I remember poring over course descriptions and reading lists before each semester. Perhaps I will bring this back by setting up a selection of TBD “coursework” and reading material every few months?
“It’s Getting Hot”
The world is pretty crazy and this metaphor of the frog in boiling water - about failing to notice gradual changes in the environment until it is too late has been popping up a lot in my sketchbook.