Projects
Some people are laser cutters. I would put novelists in this category. They stay focused working towards the same goal day by day until a missive becomes a tome. I, on the other hand, have always been a sparkler. Some of my sparks fizzle out in air, or land in water, but some catch a corner of paper and ignite. Below find some of the projects I am working on; some slowly, some with more urgency. But I am always creating something—continually throwing some light into the world.
The Headlight Children
Collaborative Arts Collective/Circus/Extravaganza
Enjoy an early iteration of Headlight Children, featuring founding members kAmA and Jampa, with Quentin as Ariel:
Postcards
Years ago, while travelling through Germany by train, an Italian man gifted me a postcard of a Moise Jacobber painting. And he signed it on the back: Da Giovanni. That exchange revealed to me the magic of postcards: small, lightweight, inexpensive, yet able to hold signatures, notes, artistic memories. I have been beholden to postcards ever since. I began making my own in the late 1990s, and love giving my cards away, but also selling them in galleries and shops. Presently, I have a rack of postcards for sale at Old Skool’s in Ellensburg.
Popcorn Zine
Limited edition zine.
Fear of Music
I had always thought myself a bad student of music, but really I was afraid to allow myself to find joy in playing music. My pen (or typewriter) often channels darkness, but for me, playing music is fun, and I’m allowing myself that. It has also been a big breakthrough for me to realize that music is not math; it is resonance. All activities are resonant: “Everything we do is music.” —John Cage
Darkling Collective
Thank you Ex, for inviting me to be part of a group of local writers I vibe with. It is because of this group that I have begun to write again. The group was named in honor of the beetle family Tenebrionidae; and is not associated with an online group called The Darkling Collective.
Craftwork
You can find my blank greeting cards, postcards, suncatchers, pinback buttons, magnets, and jewelry at Old Skool’s in Ellensburg.
Collage/Mixed Media
I have been making collages since I was a child, and have over the years had the urge to occasionally cover some disparate object in wax, or cover a canvas in resin, embedding it with glitter and plastic pearls. Some of my collage work has been published in literary journals, and I have shown, and sold, my work in small galleries over the years.
Cassette Tape Project(s)
In 1982 I made a super-8 film: A Lineman Is Better Than A Man Who Hands You A Line, which explored personal relationships by juxtaposing snippets of conversation with close-up imagery. The soundtrack for A Lineman morphed into an audio collection obsession, in which I collected over 2,340 hours of sound, interviews and conversations using a cassette tape recorder between 1981-1995. I have transcribed some of these recordings into written pieces, but want to explore other uses, such as tape looping for installations, etc.