. As an Art teacher I had been asked to create an illustration for the cover of the first edition of the school’s Literary Arts Magazine, featuring the best of student work. The magazine would feature essays, short stories, and poetry written by students of Center for Creative Arts in Chattanooga, Tennessee, an arts magnet…
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Opening
I apprenticed with musician and luthier Tom Morgan of Dayton, Tennessee in working with acoustic instruments, and worked briefly for Warrior Guitars in Ringgold, Georgia. As someone who treasures acoustic music, I bring instruments to their fullest potential through a simple practice that opens their tone wood into a unique voice of clarity, complexity, and sustain. An acoustic guitar is composed…
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Madonna
This is an alternative form of photography known as Van Dyke Brown. A cousin to alternative processes Cyanotype and Gum Bichromate, Van Dyke Brown is accomplished by mixing the silver photographic emulsion by hand and applying it to a surface that you want to make a photograph on. It could be fabric or ceramic for example. This…
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Resonance
The flowering dogwoods hung like clouds as I walked in the pine needles and stones. The titmouse declared the sky blue, the dew was burning off, and it was already hot. Among scattered shards of bark and acorn tops, a box turtle shared my path among smooth roots and snags. From out of nowhere, it started to rain.…
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