My studio walls hold two large bulletin boards. I decorate these with snippets of projects in progress, images and words that inspire me, and other items of fascination. Some of the things collected there are...
Milagros and a rusty old keyhole purchased at a flea market in Merida, Mexico
A reproduction of Anselm Kiefer’s sculpture of a book with wings
A photograph of my husband with our lab, Trinity, at 8 weeks old
Tear-outs from the Pottery Barn catalogue of interesting frames
A show announcement for Jules Greenberg’s Fallen exhibition
The Peace Prayer of St. Francis
A packet of cards with bright red words printed on them - words like magic, devotion, grace, miracles, etc. – purchased at the Paper Source
A list of how to move forward with a current project, shooting still lives of collages created inside bottles
A photograph of me at around age 6, working in my father’s art studio
A picture torn from the New York Times Book Review of surrealists Lee Miller and Tanya Ramm reading the paper in bed in 1929 in Paris
A package of gold leaf
Quotes by artists like Agnes DeMille, Jane Hirshfield, Robert Bly, ee cummings, and these words by Mary Oliver:
Let me keep my mind on what matters,
which is my work,
which is mostly standing still
and learning to be astonished.
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