“Variability is the enemy of quality.”

Last month I visited a working factory and learned something about where gender equality stands today.

CHEE-ka-go and Wisconsin

Last week I visited the Windy City and the state whose motto is “forward!” with my father.  We got to spend time with lots of great art and lots of great family.

The feminist art / L’art féministe

Portraiture has long been considered a female art, but it is also a fundamentally feminist art.  Le portrait est peut-être un art féminin, mais il est aussi un art féministe.

Asking questions / Poser des questions

It’s ironic that the French word for “to ask” is “poser,” because I think asking questions is the opposite of being a poser.  Je préfère me montrer vulnérable à essayer de me faire passer pour un expert.

Raising awareness about endometriosis

Because the more we know, the better off we all are.

Searching for my bearings

It’s been almost a year now since a doctor sat me down and explained to me that I have endometriosis, and I’m still not certain I understand the diagnosis.

Do you call yourself an artist? / Prenez-vous le titre d’artiste?

Wouldn’t that which we call a rose by any other name smell as sweet?  Une rose sous un autre nom ne sentirait-elle point aussi bon?

The 1960s radical separatist feminist in my head

I have a friend who hears her mom’s voice in her head.  It comments now and again on her behavior and chimes in when she’s making decisions.  It’s the same for me, only the voice in my head sounds like a 1960s radical separatist feminist.

David David David

When I first met my partner and he discovered that I was a painter with a predilection for portraits, he told me he’d never let me paint him.  He was worried that once I had added him to my collection of faces I would be done with him, and, truth be told, he wasn’t that far off the mark where portraits of the men I dated were concerned. 

Sympathetic magic

In this vlog, I talk about sympathetic magic not as a supernatural phenomenon, but as a concept that reveals what’s special about portraiture.

A lesson learned at the crosswalk

I’m a convicted jaywalker who has learned her lesson several times over.

The value of art

I didn’t mean for this video blog to come across as quite so intimidating, but Raha The Riveter’s presence does seem to have that effect.

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