Gifts of Gold

My daughter, Brooke Marchesseault, represented Martin GT Magnet Middle School in the Wake County event called Gifts of Gold  with a sculpture she made of a jaguar.  Yes, that’s right, a sculpture.  In this event, each art teacher from each school in Wake County can enter a single student. This was a great honor.
I had [...]

Pinch me, I might be surreal

 For an artist, there is a haunting pressure to choose a genre and work within it.   It can easily feel as though you have to suck everything in while someone laces the corset so tightly you can hardly breathe…no. I will not draw as I am told.
I want to be observant of what happens intuitively in my [...]

Filling in the cracks

OK, I’ve written and deleted about 20 lines so far. I guess I have to just face yet again the fact that I’m ordinary and no work of literary genius is going to spill out onto this page. Even naming this blog was a matter of looking around the room here and spotting a tub [...]