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study/sketch for her marigold album cover:

i got a letter today from a 45-year-old ex-tattooer inmate at the marion correctional institution. 5 pages, handwritten-- said he liked my article in the newspaper and he wants to be pen pals.

the asheville citizen-times did a feature on me in today's sunday paper!

birthday cards

new on my etsy shop.

jon kortajarena

carlos in tom ford's film a single man

for your head

yusef komunyakaa

potions

the old woman made mint

candy for the children

who'd bolt through her front door,

sillhouettes of the great blue

heron. she sold ten-dollar potions

from a half-lit kitchen. chinese boxes

furnished with fliers & sinkers. sassafrass

& lizard tongues. they'd walk out

of the woods or drive in from cities

clutching lovesick dollar bills

at a side door that opened beside

a chinaberry tree. did their eyes

doubt under orion as voices

of the dead spoke? they carried

photos, locks of hair, nail clippings,

& the first three words of a wish.

bill henson

this was a series commissioned by the paris opera house.

new work

christmas-y card:

chanukah card:

notecards (from a painting):

larger paintings:

new cards all available on my etsy site. i'm starting this weekend on a new series of portraits....

black box recorder & liz wolfe

working on new set of mostly-hot-pink-and-red-and-patterned paintings for the studio stroll this weekend, and listening to black box recorder:

sugar fix-- photographer liz wolfe.

older work:

new work: