somewhere between today & tomorrow on that illusive Leap Day Shaker leader Mother Ann Lee was born 29 Feb 1736-8 September 1784 ...... Mother Ann Lee embodied cosmic feminist karma bringing a new religion into the world founded on principle so radical that they endured persecutions

. swiftly Shaker swift chrome yellow

pink possibilities

. . sun drifting into rooms onto walls gleaming with varnish onto chrome yellow cabinets onto reddish yellow floors   warmth emanates energizing yellow rises out of woodwork rises into hearts —excerpt from ROYGBIV poem & work in progress for ‘anything but drab’ coming to Fruitlands Museum in May

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. Tis the gift to be simple and as Thomas Merton noted in his September 1962 letter to the Shaker scholar, Edward Deming Andrews,    “The gift to be simple is in fact the gift to be true, and what we need most in our life today, personal national and international is the truth.”

subtle sky

good morning studio book pages for 'anything but drab'

Women Walking to Water opens tomorrow, Feb 7, 5-7pm Featuring: Suzi Banks Baum, Brece Honeycutt, Melanie Mowinski, Sarah Pike, Lori Spencer, Jessica Yurkofsky Feb 7- March 28, 2025 Gallery 51, 51 Main Street, North Adams, MA [fallowness, double sided risograph on milkweed paper, 14 x 8 1/2”]

small trapezoid

Installing yesterday at MCLA Gallery 51 using the mica gathered from Canal St in 1984 when I worked at Pearl Paint. A big crate fell off a truck-what a treasure! Women Walking to Water 
Feb 7- March 28 Opening: Friday 2/7, 5-7pm 51 Main Street, North Adams, MA www.mcla.edu/mcla-in-the-...

just released by Early American Literature--a podcast about our project,'meetinghouse' Listen here earlyamericanliterature.org/index.php/po...

caught

disbursement

snow crystals tree portal

"color as building blocks"