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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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Two editions pulled in preperation for the Casoli exhibition. They didn’t make it to Italy but I like ’em anyway. Poison Ivy – Letterpress / Relief
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Growing up in suburbia I was woefully unaware of flowers, basic stuff but nothing extensive. Since moving to the mountains and watching an Appalachian spring I am overwhelmed at the wildflowers. I have a large open meadow / field in front of my house surrounded by deep forest. I get the best of habitats for…
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For the recent show in Casoli I worked with the symbolic nature of plants. Here are a few… A Passage of Time, Mountain Mint, A Cosmic Significance – Relief / Letterpress / Acrylic
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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