a gift for my brother’s birthday
Read Morethis thing they call love is a lot of work — pleasure and pain, effort and ease, day in, day out — all balled up into one. love begins as a seed of the feeling, then you must water the feeling. the feeling is made tangible in the world through work: of showing up, of being present, of nurturing, of giving part of oneself to something else. or someone else. you cannot love a passion (art, dance, a cause, an idealogy) without the labor, nor can you love another person without the daily giving. and what is the point of laboring — without love?
the things I create here are all labors of love.
and love is a thing I create with my hands.
Read Morea pressed flower gift for my friend in japan
Read Moreon art as a gift and I am a giver - how and why I make all of my art for you.
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