Materials, tools, connecting.
Charcoal: Messy, dusty, dirty, raw, crunchy, solid, slippery, smooth, velvety, grainy, seductive stuff. It is like soil; it stains, it gets everywhere, I breathe it in, it sits under my finger nails for days, it accentuates the wrinkles in my hands. It can be so dark on the surface of the paper, ground in permanently. […]
Words! Books! Reading!
How do you read? Where do you read? What do you read? I enjoy hearing about people’s reading habits. I spend a considerable amount of time each day, sitting in the quiet, reading. It is integral to my sense of well-being, of achievement, of curiosity, of crucial time spent just by myself. Books, a bit […]