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The Verkstad upgrade continues. Help yourself to a swell new gallery of scribbles made during boring meetings!

Monika and I shipped off our drawings to the annual DrawProject show in Valdosta, Georgia.

Our good friends George Ferrandi and Miguel Luciano recently painted a Barack Obama mural on her building in Brooklyn. This inspired Monika to make a banner we could hang out our window. George emailed her graphic, and Monika got to work. So what are you waiting for?

Photo by Kevin Daniel

Photo by Kevin Daniel

I've just posted images of some of the many small square paintings I've done over the years. Enjoy!

What does a big dog have to do with a famous, dead artist? I'm glad you asked...

Way back in 1995, I was briefly affiliated with the SOIL artist cooperative in Seattle, WA. Now, 10 years later, they are having a retrospective exhibit, in which I will be showing two new paintings.

Meanwhile, the show runs through October 30, with the opening reception occurring this Thursday, October 6.

SOIL is at 112 3rd Ave. South in the Tashiro Kaplan Building in Pioneer Square, Seattle, WA. See ya there!

A group of musicians at Microsoft has created a compilation CD of music called Songs For The South. 100% of all proceeds from the sale of this CD go directly to the American Red Cross in support of the victims of Hurricane Katrina. Not only that, but Microsoft will match your purchase 100%.

I'm proud to have designed the cover for this disc, as well as having contributed a Regular song. Please visit their web site and pick up a copy.

It's a bike. It's a sculpture. It's a musical instrument. It's all three! Read about The Duchamp...

The process of making something special is the practice of art. True, I have been astonished by the muse that flies in the window, producing a dazzling product to greet the dawn. More often, though, I have favored "component art" - the practice of making art in which smaller components are readied and assembled over time. Whether in the fine or the applied arts, this type of making is especially suited to patient artists working toward a large vision with only interrupted slots of time. Though some men create in this way, component art is more often the domain of women juggling daily demands with the need to create a lovely and lasting artifact.
 
Thirty months ago, I began to make "yo-yos" for a yo-yo quilt. At that time, my grandson was the size of a pencil eraser. I so hoped that things would go well for my dears ones, so I paired a hopeful mantra with a tangible product - the making of small cloth yo-yos. I made small yo-yos wherever I went. Hundreds. Yo-yo making became addictive, compulsive and, in some way, a ritual much like praying. I recently sewed the 1,000th yo-yo onto a quilt and gave it to the young family. Expressing the wishes and sentiments of mothers and grandmothers throughout the ages, I embroidered on the back, "To comfort, cover and protect you..." As I reflect on the experience of making it, I see that it was more powerful and satisfying than any art I'd made to date. Go figure.
 

MOMO, a life-sized doll, has had an interesting life.