Books we are both reading and gaining inspiration from
Dear Tina, How are you? I am slowly finding my way back to a routine. Yesterday morning I picked a book off my bookshelf by SARK called, “Change Your Life Without Getting out of Bed.” I like this idea. Within the first few pages she wrote about her friend Rebecca Latimer, author of “You’re Not… Read More
I am presently in NH teaching an Altered Books Workshop, so my working table looks a little different. This is one of my background pages, along with a little envelope I made from an old book page written in a language I do not know. I just love how the text looked visually on the… 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,
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
