When my daughter was three I put a bunch of primary colored paint on her easel, which stood in the center of our bright living room. We’d moved to that apartment because it was flooded with light. The front of the easel was covered with a big piece of
New Column Alert: Motherdanger: Mythologies of simultaneous creation and destruction. Every single new thing also has loss that’s embedded inside. Untangle the two but also don’t get rid of one or the other. Accepting guest essay on each particular prompt for subsequent installments. Send work to me. Alternately,
When I went to see FACT/SF’s performance of The Waves I knew only about Virginia Woolf’s book and had taken the artistic director, Charlie Slender-White’s, countertechnique dance class at ODC. I remember the class well because it was so hard and confusing but also so different.
The Artist's Date Series is my practice of combining two suggestions from The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron: going on a solo artist's date and writing regularly. Each week, I put something on my calendar for Saturday and go alone. The act of choosing
