Books we are both reading and gaining inspiration from
Dear Friends, We are excited to announce the book we have selected for our next book club! My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem We will be reading this over the next few months and sharing our thoughts on this wonderful woman’s life. Why this book? It is certainly a time in our country where we are… Read More
Dear Friends, We have discussed Part One & Part Two of the book Wherever You Go, There You Are by Jon Kabat-Zinn. Today we will be discussing Part Three: In the Spirit of Mindfulness. Similar to our last book club post, this will be one of our longer letters. If you are reading the book too, please feel free to… Read More
Dear Friends, We have discussed Part One of the book Wherever You Go, There You Are by Jon Kabat- Zinn. Today we will be discussing Part Two: The Heart of Practice, in an informal Q&A. Similar to our last book club post, this will be one of our longer letters. If you are reading the book too, please… Read More
Dear Friends, As we mentioned in our previous letter, we have been reading Wherever You Go, There You Are by Jon Kabat Zinn. We have developed four questions for Part One: The Bloom of the Present Moment (pages 1-100) which we have both answered in an informal Q&A. This will be one of our longer letters… Read More
Dear Tina, I came across this peacock photo I took at the Brimfield Antique show and for some reason it reminded me of us. I think we are “the weirdos” you wrote about in your last letter (which totally cracked me up by the way!). I know this is a busy weekend but wanted to… Read More
Hello Everyone~ I wanted to share a few good books I have been reading this month. Laura and I always talk about what inspires us beyond our art practice and for me it is finding a good book that either takes me to another world I know nothing about or teaches me something. I am particularly fond… Read More
Dear Laura and Friends, How lucky I am that I have the opportunity to listen to Sera Beak talk tonight in my little town of Charleston, SC. I am fortunate to have been included in the impressive list of artists for the exhibition RealEyes, which will be having an opening reception right before Sera speaks. … Read More
Dear Friends and Laura, I wanted to take a moment to share a book that Laura and I are currently reading. It is written by the internationally know choreographer Twyla Tharp titled The Collaborative Habit; Life Lessons For Working Together. Laura and I both have her previous book titled The Creative Habit which we agreed… Read More
Hi Tina & friends~ Since much of our focus is on the creative process and collaboration I thought I would share how this takes place in the classroom. Yesterday I was blown away by what my students (friends) brought in to share for the “Fearless Sketchjournaling” class I am teaching at the Mystic Arts Center.… Read More
Hi Tina,
Your Vision post of the bread and soup reminded me of the warmth and comfort of a handmade quilt on a chilly day. The time we spend sharing the seemingly ordinary things are often the most extraordinary. As I was working I thought about crazy quilt patterns and the random, fragmentation of life. xoL
I was listening to a podcast put out by “To The Best of Our Knowledge” by Public Radio International and thought of you. It is titled “Sense of Place” http://www.wpr.org/book/090524A.cfm Terry Tempest Williams is one of my favorite authors who writes about her sense of place and is interviewed on the show. I enjoyed her… Read More
I have thought a lot about our collaborative work in the last few days. Questions emerged from this thought regarding what this new format means to us as artists. How can we go deeper into our own understanding of the work? I have resolved, it will come from our continuous reflection of the work and… Read More
I am sitting down after a good day in the studio with some tea and cookies. Yum… In reading about the gallery show you saw, I flipped back to the beginning of Daniel Pink’s book. He says: “Design, Story, Symphony, Empathy, Play, Meaning. These six senses increasingly will guide our lives and shape our world….The… Read More
Dear Tina~ Daniel Pink has moved me as well. I feel a new sense of optimism and excitement about the future thinking about what he calls, “The Conceptual Age”. The quote you cited, reminded me of Brain Andreas’s Story People and the quote you have by him in your home. (Can you remind me of… Read More
Dear Laura, Daniel Pink has moved me to think of the future very differently. I have a lot to say about the beginning of the book, but let me share a few thoughts on storytelling. This quote reminded me of our separate art practices, but also when our art has come together in collaboration like the… Read More
