What's been going on in your world and circles lately?

So much! I have such inspiring friends working with food, urban faming, flowers, fungi, art, children, animals, and their own mental health.

I think the last year or so has allowed me to have some time away from usual commitments and social relationships and allowed me to re-order what I really want to do. I just opened a small gallery in Norman that doubles as my studio. It is called Magic Sad and kind of describes this particular feeling that when you get so bummed and down that there is a sort of magic in that state of being. Holding on to the idea that sometimes something is so sad that it creates a necessary transformation. The work featured in the gallery does not adhere to that story so literally but it is an outlet for any work that I find to be obsessive, therapeutic, sad/funny, or optimistic.

Anything in particular you've been working on?

I just finished up a huge commission for the University of Kansas Cancer Center in Kansas City and am looking for more opportunities to work big, but also looking forward to some time to work small. I have been working with naturally occurring clay around town to create pigments and studies with those pigments, and I always forage for mushrooms in the Fall. I've been using eggs from my pet chickens to make paint.

Tips, Tricks, Techniques?

Stay open. Plan not to plan sometimes. sharp pencils, Also nature. Always nature.

Other projects you see happening around that are cool?

Paseo Farmers Market and Flora Bodega (the project of my friend Angela).

Any stories you want to share?

I just learned today that:
"A resonator is a device which exhibits resonance or resonant behavior. An oscillator is an electronic device which produces periodic oscillating electronic signal.”