Transitioning...

In the face of precarious transitions and new unknowns, I’m choosing, right now, to celebrate completions. At the end of November I finished editioning Into the Night, a hand-printed, hand-cut and hand-assembled lithography tunnel book – a month ahead of schedule. (I hope you’ll take a look and, if you’re a collector, give it serious consideration. #1/15 has already found a home in the John M. Wing Collection of Chicago’s Newberry Library.) I’ve reached my first distribution goal for 59 Dreams: A Nocturnal Year. (You can help me reach the next one  – copies are still available for your personal library – and make perfect holiday gifts for your favorite dreamers!)

I began drawing my dreams in January of 2015, without a vision of the end result. This year of exploration was followed, in 2016, by months of intense productivity and a period of profound “connectivity” as the work went out into the world. I’ve been back in the studio this fall, editioning, and I’m convinced that these works and their processes have been transformative in a way that extends far beyond my original ideas about the expansion of time. In essence, knowing my dreams has revealed another dimension of myself — another way of “knowing”. And, I believe, that the more we know, the more agency we possess. With this agency, the better equipped we are to set our stories to work — connecting with and transforming lives...