Statement

Hold up! OMG! Do you see that praying mantis on the sill?! Oh man and there’s a fresh cicada right there by it and I don’t think it knows what it’s gotten into. Look at how that mantis moves without looking like it really means to. Well that was fast. Poor cicada. You ever wonder how often things like that are happening all around you, like when you’re just fixing yourself a sandwich? 

I find inspiration in the little things. The wayward Christmas ornament that disappeared into a dusty corner, the slow unrelenting creep of mushrooms digesting the rotting ground, sheets of shabby outdated wallpaper hidden by new, the lost, the overlooked, the forgotten, yeah buddy, that’s fascinating stuff.

I like making stuff with wool, silk, feathers, cotton. Mostly natural stuff from kinder sources if I can find them. Some of it’s leftovers from other things, you know, so there’s less waste. It’s amazing what all you can needle felt, you can even do paper. And I like to think about things like that cicada. It just woke up after 17 years and boom mantis dinner. Do you think it even knew that would be a possibility? In those last few seconds did it wish it hadn’t slept so long? Or got a chance to sing it’s little song even louder than they already do?  Yeah, probably not, you’re right it’s a bug. But what if something like that could be waiting for us? Would you do anything different?

Oh yeah! My fiber art…I …uh…explore themes of the passages of time, the brevity and struggle for meaning in life, the subjectiveness of reality and the challenge to live authentically. Does that sound more fancy?

You know I’m also telling a story here. I’ve imagined this whole place. The town of Pinnacle and the Towering Elms/Broken Elms Estate. My paintings are like illustrations, sometimes from inside Madam Bledsoe’s head, sometimes not. I’d like to get other people to notice the little things around them a little more. Maybe then they’ed see how important they really are.

Wow, that was a lot of talking. It was great but I need to take a break now. Getting to know people is kinda stressful for me. Let’s do this again though. I need more good people in my life. Maybe together we can make this world a more compassionate place, praying mantises and all.