Ghost House Studio

  • Rainy day restless

    I’ve been at the studio all morning but haven’t gotten anything done. The dog is restless and asks for a walk every ten minutes and once my concentration is broken it seems to take me forever to find my way back to my work. Oh well. Just one of those days. I spent a couple…

  • Brambly rambles

    I am settling in to my new spot on Instagram and have not given in to the urge too many times (yet) to post pictures of my dog or a bird or bug on the new account. Ha! I will be deactivating my old Instagram account in a few days (when they let me) and…

  • Listening to Jacqueline du Pré in the studio today

  • Hello

    If you have just come over to this space, welcome. It’s a jumbled, scattered mess but pull up a chair and pour yourself a cup of tea.

  • The almosts of spring

    It is almost spring. I am almost in a better mood. I am almost ready to start a new project. I am almost ready to shove my winter monsters back in their boxes in the pantry. I am not sure I can keep them there. I am still angry at the powers that shouldn’t be…

  • They say the stars are brighter after the doom but I can’t see them through the smoke and my tears

    “I stood looking over my damaged home and tried to forget the sweetness of life on Earth.” Miranda from  Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven I feel like Dr. Eleven from Station Eleven, living a lonely life in my space station, longing to return to the life I used to know on Earth. There is…

  • Morning House

    I always wake very early. Ever since I was a child, I have greeted the day alone in a quiet house before others have opened their eyes and begun to stumble around, stirring the stillness with their snuffling and shuffling and banging. It is in these moments before the rest of the house wakes that…

  • We are the Monsters

    I do not make monster art. Not exactly. I try to make art about the human condition so I feel I am indirectly acknowledging the presence of monsters–but I am not sure it’s enough anymore to suggest, imply, hint. I think my language has been too passive. I need to be more direct. I think…

  • More on dark coping and uncertainty management–and art making

    At the risk of sounding like a broken record, I am going to talk a little more about dark coping and the idea that certain types of horror films and literature help some people manage feelings of anxiety during times of uncertainty. First, I need to come clean about something. Yes, I am a dark…

  • the not irl spaces and distorted time of the internet

    The constant barrage of soapboxing on social media is exhausting. Faces facing me, wagging their fingers or wiping away tears, some whispering, some whining and several shouting are all telling me what I should think or be afraid of, or angry about or telling me with smiling faces and hands over hearts and sometimes quavering…