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Cards vs. Christmas
Christmas just hasn’t been my bag since my mom died of breast cancer in 1987. Around 1992, I was enrolled in the sculpture program at University of Houston and came up with a way to express my anti-Christmas sentiments. In my previous post, Anti-Christmas Show, I posted some photos from that show. I’d set out […]
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Anti-Christmas Show
These are images from an Anti-Christmas art installation I did at River Oaks Theater, Houston, TX, c. 1992. I installed three Christmas trees with the themes of Money, Time and Death, and Family. I hung a fourth tree from the ceiling by the trunk and jammed it into a black velvet dress; it was about […]
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Committing to My Commitments
I’m Resisting Change, but I’m Doing it Anyway Really, I am too hilarious. I can see it. I’ve listened to several encouraging audiobooks over the last year, all of them cheering me on to commit to the life I want. But as I listen, I notice the self who is pushing back, the one who […]
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Baby Earth
They call the sticky, mostly clay mud under Houston “gumbo.” We’d dug a bunch of it up in a field and used it once in my sculpture class at the University of Houston–the day I made my first baby. After I finished it, I carried it over to the road and set it against the […]
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