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The Art Attic #4: Hot Fuss and Sawdust
Nostalgia has been described as a longing for something that never existed. A couple years ago, I turned 40. Unlike a lot of my...
Mar 132 min read
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The Art Attic #3: 2024 in Books
In 2024, I read 64 books. They were all audiobooks, so my 2025 goal is more eyeball reading, not because one format is more valid than...
Feb 85 min read
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The Art Attic #2: 2024 in Music
Apparently, you don't get a Spotify Wrapped if you use the website instead of the app, but I don't need a service to tell me what I loved...
Jan 103 min read
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The Art Attic #1: The Menu
The Menu succeeds where other isolation tales fail, because it's about the very nature of art.Â
Oct 8, 20243 min read
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My Most Unsettling Products
Which best-selling items seem to upset people the most?
Oct 2, 20244 min read
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Caring for Resin and Other FAQs
Oh, yay! You scanned the QR code at my booth. Welcome. Here are the many things I tell to people at my shows about resin. It looks so...
May 29, 20243 min read
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The Hare and The Pear: 2023 vs. 2024
2023 started with tears and ended with cheers. To call the year a roller coaster would be like comparing your toaster to an active...
Jan 8, 20242 min read
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Depression, Defiance, and the Internal War to Create
People think that depression is sadness, that depression is crying; but depression is doubled gravity. Not a gravity that grounds you,...
Jan 6, 20241 min read
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Creative Gifts For Everyone On Your Christmas List
Gothy teen Mushroom boxes - Every gothy teen to enter my tent has lost their minds over these. Bite me jar - Vampires, am I right?...
Nov 27, 20233 min read
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What's in the Box?
A patron at an art show told, "I don't know what I'd put in a box." I'm sure this wasn't what they meant. They probably meant, "I'm not...
Aug 25, 20232 min read
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My First (And Second) Event
Several people asked me to share my thoughts and experience with my first event. It took me two weeks to process it all, so now it's my...
Aug 2, 20234 min read
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Beauty For One, Or Problems With Ryans
I live in Indiana. Every television character (with the noted exception of some Parks and Recreation characters) claims this is a fate...
Jun 29, 20233 min read
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Growth, Or Why I Keep Staring at Sherlock Holmes
One of the first pieces I made that I was really proud of was a drawing of Sherlock Holmes. I liked it so much, I copied and colored it....
Jun 15, 20232 min read
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Hares and Cats
All I remember about our first cat was that she was Siamese and had to take medicine regularly. I don’t think that she lived very long....
Mar 18, 20233 min read
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Why Not Etsy?
Over a decade ago, I opened an Etsy for paper ephemera. You know what’s super dull? Taking photographs of old, useless papers. (Sorry,...
Feb 14, 20233 min read
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How I Stayed an Artist
As a child, I drew constantly. My parents' favorite way to socialize was dinners out with friends, leaving me with hours at a restaurant...
Feb 5, 20233 min read
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Hark! A Blog!
Words. Many words. And spelling errors. Maybe some grammatical errors. But definitely words.
Jan 22, 20231 min read
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