At the turn of the year, I like to write a love note to the previous year and take a look ahead. this helps me to take stock of what has flowered in the past twelve months and to peek ahead at what I’m planting and planning in the coming year. It’s mostly for me, really— because I’m often like, ‘I’M NOT DOING ANYTHING!’— then I sift through the wonders of the past year and I’m like, ‘Oh, I did stuff. I did cool stuff. Cool.’ So take a little trip with me.
Read MoreI love this dark seasonal time leading to the longest night of the year— a juicy, gestational time of introspection, expectation, intent, and possibility.
I've tended to an altar in my studio space for many, many years. I've kept some kind of altar since I was nineteen. I like being open to the poetry of symbols— its not a matter of 'belief' but of possibility: what are the possibilities of meaning-making and intention-setting? An altar is a site to gather energy, focus work and life intentions, and honor what is right for you.
The Little Yakking Monster: “Yakkety-yak-yak-yak.” Shut it, monster.
Most of us have a rambling and babbling voice that chats and annoys and cajoles and sometimes even shouts: a little Yakking Monster who sits on your shoulder— invariably critical, judgmental, cynical, and snarky.
Nope! Nope! Nope!
Read MoreFor many years my fitness practice and creative practice have been intertwined. My home studio is music studio, film editing suite, workout room, sometimes visual arts studio, and a cozy research space with a lovingly tended-to altar: a symbolic and poetic environment for setting intentions and focussing energy.
Read MoreIn late July and early August I spent a couple of weeks in the UK seeing ALL THE OLD THINGZ! and spreading artistic work around.
Read MoreRead my guest post at The Future Fire in celebration of the release of Making Monsters A Speculative and Classical Anthology
“This was the darkness in which ghosts and monsters were active, and indeed was not the woman who lived in it… -was she not of a kind with them?”¹
Read MorePop artists create video content designed to go viral and to sell albums, but musicians with far smaller budgets than mega-stars are now making videos as well. Looking for ways to get your own work filmed and distributed? Check out my DIY tips to help you get started on NewMusicBox!
Read MoreThe Laboratory of Vocality. My voice is my laboratory— the practice and process, itself, determines the shape of the creative work. I work a lot with a physio ball, focussing on the flexibly and opening of the rib cage by leaning into the ball with my back, sides and full torso.
Read MoreInvest in your work every day.
Just like Saturn in his magnificent workshop.
Every. Single. Day.
Read MoreScorpions are way cool.. Way. Cool. They glow in the dark. How cool is that? (more on their poetic biology later). January is my month to tap into of ferocity, tenacity, insight, and creative illumination; and a reminder of the deepest and most potent power— an intensity of purpose and vision that is life-sustaining and essential: a creative venom.
Read MoreWow! Here we are, the end of 2017 already! Sometimes I do these official-type year-end look backs, sometimes not— this year it feels important to continue to honor my work in the world and the work of collaborators. So....
Read MoreI am a monster of my own making, a digital phantasmagoria. I (re)imagine myself.
I hear the me who is not me, yet still me
I am Many She-Monsters...
Full creative essay and new experimental voice film published on Question Journal: A New Journal for the Humanities from South, West & Wales Doctoral Training Partnership. Check it out here.
Read MoreA few years ago, I did a photography project and it's stuck with me as a favorite durational art work.Two quotes come to mind now via this wee flower project of simple observation coupled with the unrelenting and contant still-(dis)believable / (un)believeable march of events in our world— it all feels like a remembering of a never-was / once was— the conitnued surreality of my 21st century Ever-Romanticism.
Read MoreWords. (What? Wait. What did you say? What did I hear?)
Words out of the order. Whisper. Wail. Speak. Sing. Scream. Sling shot shouts. Swoops like sirens. Echo. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. Discard what isn’t useful. Discord. Discard. Draw out. Breathe. Sigh. Gasp. Ingress. Inspire. Respire. Take apart the diphthongs. Vowels long. Vowels short. Explode plosives. Consonants crackle and quake, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, and so on.
Read MoreThis, then— this is the Season of the Dionysia: The Houston Book of the Dead: How to Live— a city-wide arts festival spearheaded by writer and community visionary, Dr John Harvey of the University of Houston Center for Creative Work.
Read MoreAs a performing artist, my visual art practice is a refuge: it’s a non-performative, contemplative part of my creative life. The showing of art work may be infiltrated by performativity, but the creative process itself is free of the presence of The Internal Judges and unencumbered by outcome expectations.
Read MoreCelebrate tonight's full moon in Leo and the penumbral eclipse!
How will you Enchant the World?
Read MoreMedia projects are an evolving progression of my creative practice. As any performing artist knows, documentation of live work is an absolute must. — Check out my guest post on The Sybaritic Singer!
Read MoreNotes from the Mat
I like hanging out with MaryBeth Smith, she's a master educator, nurturing supporter, and her energy exudes insight. She teaches the movement modality, the Feldenkrais Method (she is also the director of The Feldenkrais Center of Houston).
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