Returning from work taking me so many months away from this blog I have started back by rearranging the furniture here (so to speak), a familiar way of getting control over my life. I used to do it so often I finally put everything in my studio on wheels – workbenches, couches, chairs, work stools, tables, easels. I even put myself on wheels – rollerblades, constantly rearranging myself, I suppose.
I have added new pages:
my writing; for my own poetry, writing and painting.
Selected Collaborations; for submissions to the collaborative storybook which have particular potency for me. This page will grow as I comb through the year of submissions, and as you send me your favorites.
blog history, to explain what we are doing here. What began purely as a place to post works in progress grew more complex as people started contributing writing to accompany the images they responded to here. I set aside a page I called the Storybook Collaborative to post the many contributions. It grew messy and confused by becoming a family and personal blog, especially when our newborn daughter contracted a serious illness. She is strong and sassy now, just having celebrated her first birthday, butI wrote about her illness and the support from readers and contributors here touched and encouraged us. My return to work in the film industry blew away any hope of getting back to this blog, until this week, when I finished a year-long stretch in the movies.
Storybook Collaborative; not intended from the start, but what this blog has come to be about. I supply the images, readers make up the stories. This is ekphrasis, telling the story found in a piece of art. Amazing the number of stories, myths, poems that people can find in the same piece of art.
There are dozens, hundreds here. Browse through them. Let me know favorites. Visit the blogs and contact the authors if you are moved to do so. You may not know how important those words and visits can be to artists and writers struggling in isolation to remain true to their callings.
About, which just gives you a little more information about yours truly.
