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From the frantic urban life to the laid back life in the mountains it has been a learning experience. Maybe some of these musings will give you insight to an old hippie’s mind.
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I was able to go on another pre-dawn hike up Picken’s Nose with a group of Hambidge residents. It is the best money shot for the effort of any of the trails I know around here. Out of the seven of us that went today four went for the first time. Newbies are always awed…
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Did you know you can get a man to do anything you want if you add…. then we meet girls? We aren’t very hard to figure out and I often wonder why women haven’t risen up and chopped our heads off. From personal relationships to world level decisions we’ve done SUCH a good job. Here…
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I don’t really know how far back you can go and still say new work. These drawings are from a series I did in early 2026. I haven’t shown them anywhere publicly and very few times to visitors in studio. They are really different from my normal drawings. I generally like them with the combination…
Friend from France
May 25, 2026
I would like to expand a little on my first blog posting and the “meeting” of Sylvie Vey. I mentioned the receiving prints from France during Covid and how I found one of the artists that spoke English. By some odd chance they found my name and it went from there to an exhibit in Italy. In between there was a growing, if long distance, friendship through our gardens and our art. We exchanged art and seeds and kept up with each other’s daily lives. Our first collaborative endeavor was the print exchange, What Else?. Six printmakers from France, Belgium and Italy and six printmakers from America working on a common theme.
Later we collaborated on a piece for the Hambidge Art Center auction. It resulted in the work, To Reconnect With Our Humanity, a mixed media work using Sylvie’s handmade paper, a cyanotype I made from a vintage glass negative and letterpress. I’ve worked on collaborative pieces before but this was the first time separated from the other artist by thousands of miles of ocean.
We further worked together along with Sabine Cez and Simon Batani Bezzi to put together Rizomi, the exhibition in Casoli. We hope to continue our group exhibitions together, have the next exhibition in America then one in France.
Who’d thunk that opening the mailbox would eventually lead to sitting in a Pietrasanta, Italy square at midnight drinking wine and eating pizza with my children, Sylvie and her husband. Moral of the story is…. Check your mail, it might lead to wonderful things.
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