- HatFields VS McCoys dance performance backdrops
The Dance Factory of Morganton contacted me about providing backdrops for a Christmas program. To fit their needs and budget, I designed three 15′ x 20′ backgrounds, which we hand painted on seamed canvas. - Nature Hike at REDBUBBLE
The Nature Hike line has expanded to redbubble! I’m really inspired by some of the tools available in the product design options, like the ability to tile your imaging! The Luna Moth was perfect for this, giving a hounds-tooth effect at a distance. The Trillium blossom turned out to be really nice against a dark … - Talking Decapitated head-on-a-pike.
A local playwright (Freddy Bradburn) wrote a bit in a folk tale performance that included a decapitated head, placed on a pike at the edge of town as a warning to others, that comes to life, greets its former traveling companions, and joins them in a song. And it needed to look like the actor … - Blue Flames
Wrapping vector flame patterns across a golf cart hood with a uniform “blown-back” look required a map of the changing angles, so we wrapped the nose in a giant sheet of paper and made one. Working carefully over the pattern, we built the flames from both the center out and the edge in, aiming for … - Nature Hike Decals
Nature photo decals are here! Very excited about the new branding for these outdoor grade large-as-life vinyl decals. You can find them at Twisted Sisters, the McDowell Arts Council Artisan gift shop, and Signs by Design. Head over to the Nature Hike page and check them out! - Home
There’s this dusty sunshine in my attic. It is soft around the edges and has a worn, warm look about it. I feel the world slow its turning to match the graceful pirouette of what looks like a cloud of memories gently glinting and turning in the shaft of light. Memories. Long shadows drawn across … - Butterfly GlueI remember the girls of my summersas if she were held together with butterfly glue,the one who taught me that sandy beaches make salty kissesThe one that ran like wild horsesin the hard packed sandat the edge of the surfuntil I staggered to a haltheart fluttering against my chest like a scared caged birdhands on …
- AeroplaneThat momentwhen the bell ringsand you’re freeso for the first time since morningI have the sun on my backand my feet on the groundwhen the purr of an engineturns my eyes and my mind skywardcatching the tail of atiny silver bird dragging my focusbehind it like a balloon on a stringas it lumbers away from …
- Winter WoodI walk in my winter wood at duskAs the sun gathers up its last rays of the dayLeaving the warm air heavy with mistLong tendrils curling up from the earthAnd winding through the trees,Climbing toward the newly darkened skySpreading through limbs and across pathsDulling the moonlight to grey where it lands around meSilver light glancing …
- Drexel FairThe crowd pressing together like flower petals lodged in a closing book long impatient lines filled with anticipation writhe across the slow-moving traffic air thick with caramel smell, leaving your skin as sticky as a cotton candy bath fresh-squeezed lemonade running down your throat and down your back as the thickly-woven throng jostles its way …
- The LeverI forgot to pull the lever to wash away my fever as they handed me the cleaver so I thought that I would die fry cry sigh like the wind crowding through a lonesome tree that’s free and wants to be uprooted polluted convoluted like the trail of a snail in a crooked shell that’s …
- SnowSnow fills the air and blankets the ground, blankets the hound, the home, the piles of round logs waiting to warm us, ready to be fed to the fire, fodder for the heady warmth seeping into our clothes, our hands, our cherry faces; those snow-packed gloves, scarves, coats leaking water on the hearth. Piney scents …
- Jupiter
- Moon & Venus
- Blue RidgeA really “blue” day.
- While we’re on the subject of feathers…
- Maggie found a feather…
