Best advice you’ve been given • Work begets work. When experiencing a creative block, do something—anything, even if it’s awful. The mere act of making work, no matter what it is, generates new ideas.
Goals/Aspirations • Pursue all of those ideas that, as of yet, only exist in my imagination.
Favorite artist • Joseph Cornell and photographer Ralph Eugene Meatyard. I’m equally inspired by writers, many of my pictures include direct references to passages and phrases from favorite stories and poems.
What are you reading • A Red Herring Without Mustard by Alan Bradley, it’s about an eleven-year-old girl who practices chemistry and solves murder mysteries.
Hope to learn how to • Write a novel.
You spend a lot of time thinking about • Whatever my latest obsession is, an idea for a photograph, my kids’ school projects, the garden. I tend to fixate on one thing, pouring all of my energy into it.
Favorite musical artist • Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone - most frequently played in my darkroom - The Very Best of Nina Simone 1967-1972—Sugar in my Bowl, Volume 2).
What do you do when not creating art • Teaching, tending to the business side of art, spending time with family, cooking, and gardening.
