As smooth as glass and hidden in plain sight. Handmade and embossed cotton and abaca fiber paper with embedded wood shavings from driftwood found on the shores of Lake Michigan.

I’m excited about this little experiment and can’t wait to make more.

This week, I’m in the last stretch of installing a big project I’ve been working on for months. This is one tiny part:

Electrolyte Shield [homeostasis], 2025,
Salvaged Tetrapak, stainless steel jump rings, hand-carved poplar wood, petrified wood, stone, drift wood, water.

New nonsense targeting arts funding & demanding censorship keeps dropping every day so am just continuing this thread so all of these thoughts are in one place. Today’s dispair re:
The NEA (described in alt-text):

Thinking about her: little Lake Michigan driftwood fragment swimming in a new tiny, inland sea. Part of a larger work I’m still building out in the studio this month about cold water swimming as pain relief. 🌀

I’m spending a week listening to a lake thanks to @kallipearl.bsky.social and many many other radio beloveds who have sheltered and fed me and driven me around and checked my equipment set up and reminded me that I do, in fact, love making audio work very very much.

I am at the stage of MFA thesis time where I seriously need to consolidate and clarify ideas in forms that are legible to others. But I keep getting sucked into the immensely gratifying task of making increasingly elaborate mind maps: