Studio Update: Minnesota Loon Linocut in Progress

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.

On Making Work Right Now

I've been allowing the heaviness of this moment to gently guide what I make this year. I'll admit—I've struggled with whether to continue making and sharing artwork. In times like these, it can feel selfish or superfluous. But I keep coming back to this: we must press on and keep making things, both to take care of ourselves and to add some light to this world.

What feels especially important to me right now is paying attention to the speed at which everything around us shifts. Messages and headlines blur past so quickly that it's easy to get distracted from what happened even a week ago. I'm digging into slowing down, finding ways to remember, and looking more closely.

It's strange to say this, because printmaking is already slow. Each step—carving, inking, printing—demands patience and presence. But maybe that's exactly the point. In a world that forgets by design, the deliberate pace of this process feels like its own quiet act of resistance.

Things in Progress:

• I’ve been experimenting with creating patterns from my block printed work for fabric or other surface pattern contexts. Check out the crow print on fabric below. (Here is the original block print)

Crow linocut fabric