Some thoughts on what to do with that feeling that you need something more, something else; that something is going to satisfy an itch or a need or a hunger; but nothing ever does. It’s the thinking associated with, “I can’t stop doing this”; or, “Just one more, I swear.”
Read MoreThe trick actually has little to do with how you distribute your energy, and everything to do with how easily you can accept that you cannot do everything; and with how readily you can be gentle with yourself when it seems everyone else can. I
Read MoreOn spending quite a lot of time with quite a small number of artworks you wouldn't normally see.
Read MoreWe got a new cat.
Read MoreThe most perfect possible bird ushered out this dark year and let me let go into the next one.
Read MoreThe longest love story of my life, resurrected every Christmas Eve.
Read MoreEighth grade was the beginning of the rest of my life.
Read MoreJean Baptiste Lucido Johnson Hoar de Galvan: November 2015 - December 2016.
Read MoreOne of our cats collapsed extremely suddenly last night. Things are still up in the air.
Read MoreThree-step paintings.
Read MoreI truly believe that 4 a.m. is one of the best-kept secrets of the creative world.
Read MoreTwo paintings at the end of a semester thinking about birds.
Read MoreThere is this notion that you are supposed to do things perfectly the first time; a sense that mistakes are so terrible that they signal that the very task at hand has been a total bust.
Read MoreFinding the rhythm of “enough" and “try harder” has always been a difficult balance for me.
Read MoreAn overdue realization hit me: The day when I became Craft Girl Fantasy was never going to come. My precious stacks of scrapbooking paper weren’t doing anyone any favors in these forgotten drawers.
Read MoreThe small things you can do (make caramel! make sushi! fix bikes! fix pipes!) to make your life feel more interesting and valuable.
Read MoreHonestly, there’s really nothing better than when someone asks me to draw something for them. Drawing makes me feel good; it makes me happy. When I don’t have to think of something to draw myself, because someone gives me a photograph to work off of, it is a huge relief.
Read MoreHow one of the worst days of my semester became one of the best days of my life.
Read MoreThe comically terrible culmination of an unbelievably rough semester.
Read MoreThis little literary journal became a home for an unbridled fury of cat drawings.
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