A working journal from Driftway Studio in Rhode Island. I write about process, materials, and the slow, often meandering work of making things by hand.
Collecting Color
On a cold beach walk, thousands of stones in dark reds, greens, and luminous whites become the color palette for a new collection.
Playdate: Postal Ephemera
For March's Playdate project, I explored the rich textures and hidden stories of postal ephemera—stamps, envelopes, and album pages—discovering both the rewards and challenges of working with this layered material.
I Don't Collect These
I opened an envelope from the 1940s expecting something worth saving — a last letter, maybe, something with a story. It was junk mail.
February Art Playdate: Back to Magazines
The Art Playdate is a monthly project I started at the beginning of this year after realizing my studio time had become too task-oriented—all business, no play. Each month I choose a material, tool, or idea I've been curious about and spend the month exploring it with no pressure to produce sellable work. January was vintage sheet music. February brought me back to magazines.