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Chavanod in May

Gorgeous arrival and direct to the forest! Sari wants ramps and wild asparagus for tonight’s dinner. Video description: Loud rushing bright water sparkles in the sun with Alpine rock formations and giant boulders in the creek and a wall of green behind. 

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Ritual 7: Howard Hodgkin

My Ritual Artist Open Call project is an opportunity to express gratitude to the artists and women who inspire me. So far it exists as a bunch of multilayered calligraphy compositions, and eventually it will materialize as a square banner for my collaboration with @ritual_open. The idea was not to involve anyone I know personally and […]

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Ritual 6: Wangechi Mutu

It was so clear in my mind that I first encountered Mutu in 2005 at the Tate Modern, but I can’t find anything online about any such show. They were giving out prints of her beautiful, unforgettable collages, and I can’t find the one I grabbed. Unforgettable and yet memory tricks me. Times and places […]

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Ritual 5: Kathleen Hanna

I’m trying to work these calligraphies into a square format for the square banner. Maybe not quite there yet but I do get to send gratitude to Kathleen Hanna, who is literally a rock star—and the best kind of artist: one who brings other women along with her, directs people to resources, tells the truth […]

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Ritual 4: Maintenance Phase

Over the last few years, between You’re Wrong About, Maintenance Phase, and You Are Good, I have learned that podcasting is a new art form—insofar as art is a crafted sensory experience that shows me my world in a new way and thereby fundamentally changes that world. Thank you Maintenance Phase, thank you Aubrey Gordon, […]

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Ritual 3: Jia Tollentino and Aaron Swartz

First layer thanks Sia, Ani DiFranco, Fever Ray, and Gnucci; second layer Jia Tollentino; and final layer Aaron Swartz.  In the midst of my new gratitude practice, giant thanks to the spectacular women of @ritual_open. I am immensely honored to work with every one of them. 

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Ritual 2: Gnucci and Sia

Today I honored Sia, Fever Ray, Gnucci, and a local business

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Ritual 1: Albers and Solnit

The thanking begins

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This Week in Magnolia Blossoms

Our magnolia’s brief glory this spring

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Future postcards

Four future postcards, new acrylic and vinyl over old acrylic