September 1, 2026 Earlier this year, after installing large woven "forest heads" made from basket cane and branches, I started wondering whether a head could be knitted -- or if anyone had ever knitted one. I wanted to continue exploring the forest‑head idea but in a repeatable form that felt like a three‑dimensional drawing, where the material itself could stand in for the lines of a sketch. Searching for knitted head patterns turned up nothing, so I did what any “accomplish

I'm writing this as of Friday, June 26. Tonight is the opening of PDArts/Conru Art Foundation's Summer of Awe and I'm thrilled to be a participating artist! The beautiful 1915 building will be restored soon, but in the meantime it opens it's doors for an immersive art installation experience by a truly diverse group of local artists. My exhibit, Forest Heads #2, will be in a section connected with other environmentally attuned art. For more information on The Coliseum, visit.

Knitted Head, 11 x 9 x 4 in, paper wrapped wire, 20206 After showing recent paintings in March, my energy plummeted. This tends to happen, after the work of getting a show ready. But this time it felt different, like the exhaustion of holding up a mode of practice that I have, in some ways, grown beyond. I'll be completely honest: After looking at all the work produced in the past year, mostly I thought, "Yeah, no..." The reason, I discovered, is because it became too illustr