Wonder & Dust
exploring the connections between spiritual and creative practice
The Energy Fields of Dreams
As an artist, I sit with an image for hours upon hours, and I have some theories about how that deep attention can connect us to deeper realms of consciousness.
The Door That Always Opens
Dear Readers, First! Because this piece is a journey into our collective inner world, I highly recommend listening rather than reading it. If you want to read the introduction and…
A Ribbon of Light That Might Guide Us Through
In the empty forest of winter, two Cooper’s Hawks approach a holly tree. The tree is lit by a ribbon of light that has unspooled from a weak winter Sun. The…
The Light That Runs Through Everything
In the bullseye of Helene, I found my community and landscape, and my inner world, ripped apart. And I was deeply held by the mystery of dreaming.
The Age of Repair Is Beginning
Dear Reader, I am very focused in the studio on my upcoming show Dreaming Animals, and this post explores one of my most profound animal dreams. This dream is interwoven with the…
The Blue Basket
Let me know my smallness. Not an isolated smallness, not an insignificant smallness, but the smallness of a thread in a great and intricate tapestry, the smallness of one spider in…
Dreaming Animals: the Mission
The first story was a dream. The first storyteller, the Dream-maker. Long before words. Long, long, long before complex language, or tools, our deepest ancestors were dreaming. The proof is…
The Holy Grail of My Practice
Back in February two things came onto my agenda–a massive studio clean-out and a total renovation of my website. I got a little help with the heavy lifting of cleaning,…
Creativity as Relationship
There are different kinds of creative practice. There is the technical practice of one’s craft—the time spent becoming more and more proficient, building skill and developing mastery. This is important…