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Ancestors, Mothers, Muses...
Journey through Ancestors, Mothers, Muses. This body of work uses multimedia, fabric, poetry, image, so [...]my thin-skinned wandering
Trés Chicas Books invited me to make a poetry book that embraces image, language and texture utilizing [...]Map of a Woman’s He...
This body of work included a collaboration with Andy Zadrozny, jazz double bassist. A musical compositi [...]Solstice, Christmas Eve, ...
Marilyn Batts (also Leah Stravinsky), a good friend and wonderful sculptor, asked me what my next expe [...]Teahouse & Butoh
An excursion to a misty place – a suitcase packed with new books and kimonos. An unexpected collabora [...]Making a book: livelihood...
Installation at Santa Fe Complex: Glowing white space • delicate, translucent, and illuminated • pa [...]Kimonos in a Stone Forest
The work of Stone Forest is an exquisite combination of nature and the work of human hands. A perfect [...]Invisible Threads: Three ...
Piper Leigh’s art installation “Invisible Threads: Three Bundles of Work” at Studio 6, September [...]Odes & Offerings
A big thank you to Joan Logghe! I loved participating in this innovative dialogue…poets and a [...]Interview with Julie Clai...
Covid 19 was just beginning when this interview took place. We were both disoriented but Julie Claire a [...]Geography of a Marriage
My marriage with B resides in rivers, mountains, road trips as well as twenty plus years in the Casa A [...]The Landscape Between Us
A collaboration with Catherine Ferguson, painter and poet who lives in Galisteo. Poems and images wer [...]Galisteo Basin Preserve
I am mapping “the heart of a woman,” my current poetry and photography project, in a hermitage at G [...]Travels
How does landscape and place inform our lives?
Road to Carrizozo
Sound journey through Anc...
Poetry in this sound recording accompanies the experience of these figures in different environments.
Bookworks: Scrolls, Artis...
Poems & Images in Bo...
Ancestors are reflected in chapbooks, scrolls, small prints/postcards and large quilts of images and po [...]Ancestor’s Day Perf...
The traditions of Dia de los Muertos, All Soul’s Day, and Celtic Samhain invite us to listen, to [...]Ancestors in Galisteo Gal...
Catherine Ferguson offered a month-long residency in her gallery in Galisteo, New Mexico. I was able [...]Ancestors, The Dresses
Tangled Weeds from the Co...
There is for example a dusty blue when brown wings fold close to the body the blue grosbeak [...]Shinjo’s dance
Iskra’s blog about ...
…throughout the gallery, shimmering kimonos drifted suspended from the ceiling. Visiting Santa Fe [...]What is Butoh?
OFFERING A butoh dance by Shinjo within Japanese tea house installation by Chris Ezzell Reading prior t [...]Thoughts on cartography
Maps and visual journals resonate with my interest in synthesis and layering. This project explores the [...]Origami Hut (Mobile Studi...
I have worked for over 20 years out of my home. I imagined a “hermitage” or space for solit [...]Piper’s Photographs
Musings on glass and Mari...
A soul mate and companion in the world of transparency and layers. Gratitude for faces of glass hanging [...]Conversation about intent...
Excerpt from the conversation with one poet of Trés Chicas…. Renée: As I listen to you now, the [...]Impressions
Between two views of wandering grays, blacks, whites morph Between shifting canvases landscapes, shado [...]Voice
The invitation
I invite you to step into a boat…travel with me into the unknown, a world of fragments and dre [...]Light on a winter’s...
Watch the video: Snow, Solstice, Kimonos
Catch the Rawness, poem
— of a world preparing for war, collecting hate as rain forms a pool in the slightest depression of s [...]Questions before the snow...
What is coming forward? What am I standing in? Standing for? “Life lived with a good question as [...]Responses to the reading&...
“Your poetry belongs floating in the air. Of course, why didn’t I see it before.” K [...]Video experiments with li...
Special thanks to Dylan McLaughlin, a digital media artist. See Dylan’s site. Dylan helped m [...]Blue Map, Images
The Bass of Andy Zadrozny
Another experiment My collaboration with Andy was full of discoveries and learning. I wondered if a [...]Blessed Restlessness, Poe...
Another Morning, Poem (au...
Tres Chicas Press
What an honor to be in their good company and this poetry community! Listen to an interview of these th [...]What the Women Say, Poem ...
Postcards from a Traveler...
The Beauty of Stone Fores...
Visit their website: Stone Forest The work is exquisite! Gardens, bath and kitchen.
Reading with images &...
If you want to drop into the stream of images…check out this video: my thin-skinned wandering in [...]Excerpt: Stone Forest blo...
“Suddenly voices quieted down, and a screen was projected onto the large adobe wall above the Cur [...]The Moon Misses Its Fulln...
Stitching the moon
Odes & Offerings
Happily this dialogue between artists and poets was documented in a book published by Sunstone Press. F [...]Singing Moon Kimono
Elizbeth Raby‘s poem inspired a vision of the fluid body of the moon, shimmering in the “wh [...]Verbal Structure by Sally...
It was exciting to discover my words like a visual chant in Sallyann Paschall’s work. Sleeping [...]At the Wheel of the Year ...
The leg scratch of crickets sounds from drying sage. Thunder rolls from white clouds out of the west. W [...]Valley of Fires
Road trip, Map
What is this hermitage?
It is a small room in a very large space. Everything at hand. I settle. The mud clears. It is simple [...]Commonweal Conservancy
Many thanks to Commonweal Conservancy! I am inspired by the vision of Galisteo Basin Preserve. And I de [...]Cloud Series, Images
Wrestling an Angel, Poem
just at the edge there is a flutter a ripple on water a brief taste from a mitten of snow no sound but [...]The Road Series, Images
Alligator Juniper Series,...
the burn, Poem
the burn the mountains dance even with the memory of fire just one canyon over fresh green clumps feath [...]the burn, Poem
the mountains dance even with the memory of fire just one canyon over fresh green clumps feathery grass [...]Layered poetry
Into Blue, Mobile
Refuge, Fabric Scrolls
Mountainair, Postcard
Moriarty, Postcard
Green chili cheese, please
Home in Galisteo, Postcar...
Galisteo Spring, Postcard
Orchid, Image
Words & Paint, Colla...
Performance at Collected ...
The performance at Collected Works was a deeply satisfying expression of this new series of poems.
Catherine’s Paintin...
Composition in Five Movem...
Collaboration with Andy Zadrozny, musician, resulted in this new composition …a conversation be [...]Salt Gatherer, Poem
this morning the child I carry is made of salt dawn reveals white scallops exposes this small form the [...]Musing about process
If poems offer a direct experience when much is at a distance…if poems spark, leap to create fres [...]glimpse what’s insi...
Questions About Travel
How does the rhythm of a larger field enter our lives? How create a small simple hermitage in a big sp [...]Night Journal
Wednesday was late arrival. I come home from meeting to pack. Brian is home and it is even harder to l [...]Musings On Travel Excursi...
I keep something like a ship’s log. Entries include: Big Bend, Villanueva State Park, Chaco Canyon, U [...]Re: The reading
Your reading last evening was moving and inspirational. The way you have integrated all your experience [...]Re: Experiencing the book
To the exquisite PURITY of it, so different than any book I’ve ever seen — the intention of it. Th [...]Re: Experiencing the book
One of the most beautiful presentations I have seen in some time. Your images are exactly right, echo y [...]Musings On Composition
If we leave room for things to move in fluid relationship, might there be a startling revelation? Not o [...]Musings On Book Design
I desire a loose weave allowing the reader to look at fragments and form their own composition. I shar [...]A Dilemma of Transparency...
I follow the sway of my hips, look straight into the face of each moment, listen as one who is lost. Ma [...]Mobile Studio on the Road
Questions On Home
On what ground do I stand in this uncertain world? What is home? What is belonging? What is exile?
Invisible Threads, Instal...
This installation is the map of a journey recorded in forms that allow a fluid juxtaposition of image a [...]Musings On Collaboration
We were companions and conspirators. We wrote first drafts of poems in Catherine’s orchard using co [...]Musings On Unknown
Wilderness offers the possibility of adventure and challenge in the unknown. What we will find when we [...]Musings On Blank Spaces
Sleeping Beauties is the name cartographers give the blank spaces.