I put my phone in my pocket with the camera on, and actually got some cool photos.

I took a sea kayaking class 4 yrs ago, and spent a whole day practicing flipping the kayak and climbing back in. A warm day, a swimsuit, and calm lake inspired us to try it again. Approximately one million bruises and a paddle-busted lip later, I can report that is harder than I remembered.

I love pet sitting for art friends because it basically becomes a museum visit with a cat

I was being a bit stressed because I only have one free Saturday this summer. Then I looked ahead, and realized there’s only two more free until December.

"Pokemon" is short for "pocket monsters". "Digimon" is short for "digital monsters". Therefore, "salmon" is short for "saltwater monsters". (You might object: salmon spend a big part of their life in freshwater. But pokemon spend a big part of their life outside pockets too!)

I just realized I only have one free weekend between now and September.

Btw, if you’re in the Seattle area, feel free to come to the Open Bay garage tomorrow for Rally Cars and Coffee. You can see our rally car in person!

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Heard the unmistakable sound of my office chair swiveling while alone in the apartment and, crucially, not sitting in my office chair. Turns out: RACCOON.

Burying our sorrows through a long scheduled weekend of rallycross in Oregon. It’s hard to have morning coffee without her, even in another state. I miss that bratty cat.

We’re saying goodbye to our sweet cat Ozette today, after nearly two decades. She’s the sweetest, softest, meanest beast ever, and definitely appears in my sculptures.

We’ve been on a total roller coaster with one of our two beloved elderly cats. Over the last week, we’d been prepared to say good bye three times. Each time, she unexpectedly perked back up. It’s just so draining.

We’re presently on day 6 of assembling a sauna kit.

HOORAY FOR MY NICE TRANS FRIENDS!!!

I had a fledgling finch land on my shoulder this afternoon. It didn’t stay for long, but it was a truly surreal treat.

The summer is a weird time for me. I can’t fire the wood kiln until the burn ban lifts again in the fall. In theory, I should be starting sculptures now for fall, or relaxing. But instead I’m failing to do the former, which is stressing me too much to actually do the latter.

I have two urgent tasks to do today: clean the house and come up with a really cool sculpture idea. Not feeling either one, at the moment.

I would love to give this a shot though, if you are or know an artist in Seattle who might want to sublet a studio space for a bit I'd love to hear from you. I'm good at taking care of plants.

I’ve never been a “car person”, and am generally a slightly hesitant driver. But now apparently I’m into rally cross? I don’t know how this happened, but it’s absurdly fun. I sunburnt myself last weekend while welding the car, and spent this Saturday getting sunburnt by hooning around a track.

I kintsugi’d our car.

Thanks to @shing.bsky.social for taking a photo of me right before I became one with the rocks and left my human life forever

My new sculpture body of work is available! I've been melding my ceramics and wood practices as an exploration of anxiety and ritual. Beasts of Burden is online at Archimedes Gallery, alongside work by @leslielevings.bsky.social and @evafunderburgh.com ! archimedesgallery.com/collections/...

All available work can be found at archimedesgallery.com/collections/...

"Seeing Ghosts" From the show Beasts of Burden opening tonight at Archimedes Gallery. Online sales begin Sunday at 11am Pacific. archimedesgallery.com

Thinking of Barnacle geese on Monday morning #birds

Pssst. Are you in Seattle? Wanna come see an artist talk with myself and Lauren Boilini tomorrow? It’s free, you just need to RSVP here! www.jrinehartgallery.com/gallery-even...

Opening May 2nd at Archimedes Gallery in Cannon Beach, Oregon: BEASTS OF BURDEN, a three-person show with Shing Yin Khor and Eva Funderburgh. More info and previews coming soon.

Just wrapped up the 9th firing of my wood kiln. It went super smooth! Here’s some highlights of the last 50 hours. First off: loading.

a new collection of work getting prepped for Beasts of Burden, the show at Archimedes Gallery in May with @leslielevings.bsky.social and @evafunderburgh.com

Spring, for #repostyourart

If you’re in Seattle, my solo show will be opening this Thursday night from 5-8pm! Come say hi at the J Rinehart Gallery in pioneer square.

It isn’t a perfect job but I did the best I could!. I originally planed to do it on both sides to be reversible but this was so fiddly and tedious that I just can’t do it twice. 🤪 #pottery

Please join us in welcoming Amy Song to Artaxis. Amy is a ceramic artist working in Plainfield, IL. In 2018, Amy founded River Song Pottery in Plano, IL. Find Amy's new Artaxis page at https://artaxis.org/artist/amy-song/ #Artaxis #AmySong #pottery #woodfiredpottery

I went to do my laundry and a shark tooth fell out. I have no recollection of so much as *touching* a shark for at least a year what is the MEANING of this??

I need to start new sculptures, but instead I deep cleaned my studio and organized my tools. Behold!

The weird part of being an artist and a kiln owner is how varied and distractible my to-do list is right now. I really need to finish my taxes, clean my studio, and start some new sculptures. But wandering the woods with a chainsaw, gathering small downed trees? Also legit work!

I built a wood hutch for the side stoke wood at the kiln. Super satisfying to make an improvement in a few hours that I’d been considering for months.

shrimpo #art

I’m so excited with my work from this last wood firing! This sculpture, “Squish”, is going to be part of my solo show opening on April 2nd at J. Rinehart Gallery in Seattle.

After 6 hours of photographing work yesterday, I decided to rephotograph it all this morning. Art!

Some times the first step of photographing new work is an entire deep clean of the basement. And that’s ok.

QRP with your skull art

Unloading day at the wood kiln!! I haven’t even had a chance to peek.

The Monday Period: Pages 1-4 #garfield #imsorryjon

After reloading and restarting the wood firing, it went super smooth. We wrapped it up in 48 hours, with cone 11’s everywhere in kiln. I woke up for my shift on Tuesday to find an unexpected 3” of snow on everything!

So… the wood firing’s been spicy. A giant refired pot exploded at 700f, hour 10 during the firing. The crew heard it go. We peaked, and shards of pot were *everywhere*. We had no real option. We shut it down and unloaded the work. Any pot fired with a shard in it would be ruined.

Starting off the morning by lighting the Cloud kiln for its 8th firing. We loaded it up yesterday, with the help of a full crew!

I managed to get all my sculptures safely packed into the truck for their ride to the kiln! It took me two hours in the drizzle. Time for a nap before I pack my clothes and food.

I’ve been dealing with a cough for 8 weeks. The doc said everything is fine - my throat is just reacting to being sore (due to coughing) by trigging the need to cough. The cure? To just stop coughing for a bit.