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At the end of January I’m going to close my Etsy shops. I’m not making jewelry right now and don’t know when I will start again. I’ve tried a few times since graduate school ended, but I have not been inspired enough to complete anything. In the fall I felt determined to create new jewelry but struggled for weeks. I sketched, I made paper models, I tried hammering zinc, but nothing came and I had a heart-to-heart with myself. My focus and interests have changed and I’m not working full time in my studio like I used to. I have one full studio day a week, Sunday, and on that day all I want to do is paint with ink, draw with tape, and explore collage with torn paint chips. I’m supporting myself financially with a wonderful day job so there’s no pressure to sell my work to pay my bills. Instead, I can make whatever I want and slowly and deeply explore ideas and materials. I’m enjoying exactly where I’m at and this feels like a big accomplishment…

I’m not done with jewelry, but I know I’m not ready to return. In the meantime I’m going to focus on my interdisciplinary practice of drawing and works-on-paper, photography, video, and installation. Closing both shops feels like the right thing to do and I don’t know when I will reopen them. I hope you will take advantage of this moment and visit both. If there’s a necklace or drawing you’ve had your eye on, now is the time to click “add-to-cart.” Please feel free to message me with any questions.  

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Thanks for reading, and, as always, thanks for your interest and wonderful support of my work.

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So pleased to announce my next exhibition, To What Depths, at The Great Highway Gallery in San Francisco’s Outer Sunset (and my very own neighborhood!). I’ll be showing a site-specific installation in the window along with drawings and photographs, a video, and two books of poetry in the main gallery. More details to come. 

January 24-February 23

Opening reception January 26 from 6-9pm 

The gallery is located at 3649 Lawton Street in San Francisco, CA 94122.

Please mark your calendars! I would love to see you! 

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Happy Holidays and a wonderful New Year…

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[nemfrog]

Diagram locates the senses and mind functions in the brain. New light on psychology. 1905.

11. Imagination. 12. The Reflective Powers. 13. The Will. 14. The Spirit.

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Voids, crooked lines, and erasure… drawing in progress in Carbon transfer paper, pen, and pencil on found paper that was silk screened white, 40 x 26 in.

Thanks for reading.

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Fredrik Carl Mülertz Størmer - Nordlys, Mot syd. Micardbu, 9 & 14 Jan. 1939

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[semioticapocalypse]

Pentti Sammallahti. Kirkkonummi, Finland. 1969

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Abstract (at Ocean Beach)

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Doves From the Inside Like Teeth, ink, watercolor, gesso, pen, pencil, 11 x 14 in.

Thanks for reading.

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[nemfrog]

“Nebulosity in the Pleiades.” The universe. 1956.