ArtyEm

I am a mom, architect, artist, pagan, art journaler, knitter, collager, alterer of old stuff, UU, and basically just mess around in the studio all the time, dreaming of travel and alternate realities.

Work as diverse as architecture historic preservation, arts education, and shamanic journeying inspire my incessant habit of being interested in just about everything. I practice certain obsolescent arts, including hand binding books, carving totems in erasers, and playing a djembe; I love to send out artist trading cards, postcards, shared journals, etc. and my current work deals with mining the inner gems that are in all of us -- the connected spirit that shows us all life is ONE.

Some things I like: absinthe, abstract expressionism, activism, altered books, altering stuff, anais nin, anti-capitalism, archetypes, art, art books, art dolls, art journals, art museums, art retreats, art zines, artist communities, artist trading cards, assemblage, auras, avebury, bill bryson, blue, blue states, blurry self-portraits, book arts, burning man, camping, chai tea, chocolate, circles, collaborative painting, collage, collage art, creative outpourings, creativity, dancing in paris, day dreaming, djembe, drawing, drumming, england, feminism, finding meaning, flea markets, found objects, france, freedom, frida kahlo, garage sales, getting mail, goddess, gratitude, guitar, healing touch, hemp, henry miller, hiking, holistic health, honesty, hugs, incense, independence, intentional communities, johnny depp, jonatha brooke, journaling, joy, knitting, layers of paper, lists, low carb, mail, mail art, mary oliver, may sarton, mixed media art, nature spirits, new york city, open-minds, organic eating, outsider art, painting, paper arts, paris, peace, pen and ink, performance art, photos, photoshop, poetry, postage stamps, postcard fairies, postcards, protein, reading, red hair, robert henri, rubber stamps, rufus wainwright, rumi, sabrina ward harrison, sark, self discovery, shamanism, shrines, sketch books, snail mail, solitude, solstice, south beach diet, spirituality, spoken word, stevie wonder, stonehenge, stubbornness, succulence, tea parties, texture, the artist's way, the ocean, the studio zine, thinking for oneself, tom robbins books, travel, tree climbing, trees, true friends, unitarian universalism, walking, water, weird art, whirling dervish, wicca, wild art, women artists, world travel, yarn, yoga, zines

Although I hope to change the world for the better, I will settle for just changing myself.