Sunday, December 29, 2019

Top reasons for a writer to love paper making and paper marbling



It's not just black and white.
You get to use fun tools like eyedroppers and whisks made out of broom straws.


 A tray of water with paint floating on the surface is more fun than a laptop.

You do it while standing up and moving around.

Even the flawed pieces are great.

You can turn out a lot of pieces in an afternoon.

The above photos are from a Turkish marbling or "ebru" workshop at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts. Below is some of the paper I recently worked on at Cave Paper. While I didn't form the sheets, I did apply all the walnut crackle onto the sheets. This paper is spectacularly beautiful in person. It would make a gorgeous journal cover for....writing.




Monday, December 9, 2019

Love in the Slow Lane



Somehow, it's already eleven years ago that I met Dan Paik.
The essay I wrote about it got published today in P.S. I Love You, a Medium publication.

https://psiloveyou.xyz/love-in-the-slow-lane-467df7d9ccc7?source=friends_link&sk=471110cfdbd9cefec817166908394638