Journal Posts

  • Tracing the Dialogue

    There are moments when the work slows just enough for reflection to surface, where making becomes listening. This Journal marks such a moment. Here, I am exploring the space between intention and discernment—how one propels and the other refines, how both depend on silence to translate thought into form. What begins as impulse may end

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  • Earned Equity

     I spent over a decade immersed in higher education — ten years of rigorous academic pursuit, buoyed by fellowships, scholarships, and honors, but also burdened by substantial government-backed loans. I repaid them all. It took decades. It cost me opportunities in my chosen field. Yet I did so in good faith, believing that the investment

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  • Big Beautiful Bill

    With the encroachment—and enrichment—of AI (and I’m using this term collectively, not the individual systems and models) on the beckoning periphery, did anyone bother to put this BBB through analysis? And did anyone consider how we test these so-called financial and social and governmental measures before going Live. Why must we live with these decisions

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  • Why Hybrid Media?

    An artist might choose hybrid media to seamlessly integrate traditional and digital techniques, capitalizing on the tactile authenticity of physical mediums (like painting or printmaking) while leveraging the precision and versatility of digital tools. This approach allows them to layer diverse textures, styles, and processes to achieve depth and complexity, pushing the boundaries of their

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  • Until

    you think you know me? you’ll figure me out with butterfly labels, flitting and flailing. until my labels, bombard me. enticing me into chambers unknown. becoming poetry in slow motion. you still can’t know me.

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  • Robert Adams

    I put my thinking together from concepts that are less than clear. I put my phrases together with words whose meanings are less than certain. I don’t see tables, I don’t see chairs, I see only works of art. I have no alternative lifestyle. For me, every day is Sunday. The sorting out of our

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  • Curating

    Recently, I asked ChatGPT to provide an objective POV in curating our media works, and the considerations on usage/potential usage of identical images with both color and monochrome versions. Assuming they each communicate at the aesthetic level expected, and that would most likely not be shown in the same venue (unless the display is about

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  • Intention

    Carolyn Parker’s contemplative, artistic approach to her present work references psychology, society, mysticism, divinity, unity and regional observation, for starters. Studies of these topics guide her in creating metaphorical meanings from an internal cosmological perspective, which extends beyond the logical and literal. She strives to access and pay visual homage to artifacts and ephemera of

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