Portions of chapters 18-20, Further announcements will be made about material, depending on how much we are able to cover before the end of the semester. Art is not practical, and shouldn't be practical. Art is not to earn a living. For me, looking, touching, material, place and form are all inseparable from the resulting work. It is difficult to say where one stops and another begins.
Place is found by walking, direction determined by weather and season.
Movement, change, light, growth and decay are the lifeblood of nature, the energies that I try to tap through my work. I need the shock of touch, the resistance of place, materials and weather, the earth as my source. I want to get under the surface. When I work with a leaf, rock, stick it is not just the material in itself, it is an opening into the processes of life within and around it. When I leave it, these processes continue.