New Interview up at Etruscan Press
I’m really happy about this new interview that’s up at the Etruscan Press site where I discuss writing and art. Check it out! https://etruscanpress.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/SSG-interview-1.6.pdf
One Hundred
My recent work with Claire Benn at the Crow Barn was inspiring and informative, as usual, and I returned home with lots of new techniques, and Claire's voice in my…
Acrylic, Acrylic and more Acrylic
I'm at a Claire Benn surface design workshop at the Crow Timber Barn in Ohio. This first week we are in 'free fall,' which means we are to have no…
Inspired by Nature
Whenever I feel like I have lost my way, I go to my garden. There I will find everything: beauty, growth, life-and-death fighting, and rot. I should say that I…
Minimalism and The Small Door of Your Death
The poems from The Small Door of Your Death, are all written in what I might call a minimalist style. Because they dealt with the death of my son, I…
Inspiration: Bark
What is it about tree bark that so inspires? I must admit to loving trees, first off. But there's something about the bark of a tree that excites my imagination…
Ekphrasis
Traditionally we understand ekphrasis as a written response, often a poem, to a work of art. John Keats' "Ode on Grecian Urn" is a famous example. The idea, initially, was…