Artist’s Defeat
Coming to the last page of the calendar of 2025 meant for me, traveling to our family in Australia. At the same time I knew, this will keep me away from the sewing machine. Still, my plan was that I’ll use my precious fabrics from a screen-printing workshop for this
Ode To The Humble Tree
Take a walk in a city during a hot summer day. Imagine, if exposed to full sun, would it be a hot transition from one place to another, or would you rather feel ease and pleasure to meander under a shade canopy of street trees? The temperatures from full exposure
Green Spaces
Gardens are our human oases to relax and enjoy nature. That doesn’t mean one has to do all the work that comes along with a plot of land, no matter the size, it can be a public park! When we visit cities, at some point, we’re all ready to walk
Ancient Ingenuity
A fascination for bridges has been with me for a long time. Almost any big city in Europe, sitting along the banks of a river affords a view over a series of bridges. What a glorious stage of millennials of engineering. The symmetry, the rhythm and interplay of light and
Daring Builders
Bridges—both literal and metaphorical—are an act of connection, collaboration, and progress. I seem to have a long held admiration for the engineering and construction of bridges, as I looked through my photographs, bridges are clearly a repeating subject. Not many man-made structures are as useful and necessary as bridges. Humans
Imperfect Union
Our country is on a road of uncertainty. Much of the government functions we knew as a running and working, albeit not a perfect system, has been broken up, radically reorganized, critically under-staffed and some have been flat-out eliminated or destroyed. People, citizens alike everyone else within our legal borders
We The People
More than three months of confusion, frustration and brainwork are coming to an end. This was hard for me, to articulate what I am feeling. Deep sadness clouded my vision, a vision that has become a fast-moving target as the daily deluge of bad news washes over this country. And
Trigger Words
I don’t know what keeps you up at night, but I worry deeply are about the massive changes in our treasured constitutional democracy. It is the many changes of just about everything, but especially the subtle, -or not so subtle-, changes in our American English language. It started years ago
Peaceful Revolution?
When I think of revolution, most images are about rough and hard fighting, demonstrations, people being hurt, killed, murdered and general chaos. There are very few exceptions, although images and headlines of the time just before the fall of The Wall that separated West and East Germany swell up. Being
Gray Matter, Dark Holes
When I learned about our current CiC prompt, my thoughts started racing from one possibility of interpretation to the next. On and on for weeks. Should I go easy and work abstract, maybe look back and pick a point in my life where I changed my mind for better or
Chemo Brain
15 years ago, the world as I knew it changed dramatically with the diagnosis of breast cancer. This rattled me deeply. What followed was a course of racing thoughts of what’s to come: heavy treatments to fight the disease. However, the day the doctor confirmed the diagnosis, it made my
Miss Piggybank Is Hungry
Almost everyone can remember having a piggybank of some sort, collecting loose change, pretty coins, saving up allowance, – and putting effort into occasionally trying to pry something out again. Once it was opened, the delight to sort the money by size or color, and learning the actual value of