A Hundred Steps

There’s something about these steps.   Once I returned to them to find I was standing in the pile of my own dog’s poo I’d left on the ground because I forgot to bring a bag with me.  These steps were there to carry me up on their backs while I scraped off my shoe and thought about [...]

The half-wish

  I saw this half-wish creeping out from someone’s lawn onto the sidewalk. It seemed like a harmless, fuzzy, wonderful thing at first glance, but then as I contemplated what a half-wish is, I began to give it the proper fear it deserves.  A half-wish would be like the monkey’s paw style wish -one that [...]

Enjoying the camera

Nothing but an empty bird feeder swinging from a barren branch in December. Having fun with the new camera on a much needed walk after all of the Christmas goodies we’ve been eating. 
I spotted this and asked my husband, Brad, to take this shot since he was holding the camera at the time. We’re sharing [...]

Un-nudes at the Slater Memorial Museum

The air was thick with dust and mold inside. On this drab, rainy day the natural light from the ceiling was grayed a bit. It was as though I’d meandered into someplace old and forgotten like you’d see in an Indiana Jones movie. My party and I were practically alone there as we wandered.
It took my [...]

Camera with a toggle from easy to pro

 
As a sculptor I need a nice camera to make images of my work. I want the ease of use that comes with a point and shoot camera, with the option of the kind of control an SLR offers. I want to have my cake and eat it too.
My old digital point and shoot finally bit [...]

Cut and paste world

I’m really flattered that someone has taken enough interest in my artwork to cut and paste my entire post word for word including title and my original image of my original artwork on their blog, but it sure would be nice if they asked permission or at least linked to my blog and credited me [...]

Scott Renk has done it again

Here’s an article in the Indy featuring some of artist Scott Renk’s work with teens at the alternative school, Mary E. Phillips High School in Raleigh.

Alive!

  Today a 10-year-old boy shot my daughter and her friends with a BB gun after school. This gun shot hard plastic BB’s instead of the metal ones, so instead of bleeding, the kids have red welts. Apparently the guy shot the ground around them to scare them, then shot another boy who was in [...]