okay, this is the first try of my flame font.  I saw the flame shapes on fontstructure and they just spoke to me.  So then I wrote this like it’s some newsletter from hell.  I only made capital … Continue reading →

Set Up Originally, I wanted to craft a font comprised of my big, dumb face making vowel and consonant faces. My thought was maybe I could create a “font” that could be “read” by Wylie. I could use it to … Continue reading →

But I could not resist posting this: http://laughingsquid.com/artist-creates-creepy-typeface-with-human-skin-hair-and-eyes/  

[NB: There will be no picture this time because I can’t decide on anything.] So this would seem a perfect topic for me to expound upon, and yet I’m paralyzed. Mostly because the kinds of things that we are to … Continue reading →

What value can be derived from a ripped-up wrapper of an individually packaged tea bag? As with David Levy’s document in “Meditation on a Receipt,” packaging — the small wrapper, especially — is “abundant and ordinary,” and (from what I understand about … Continue reading →

For homework, I asked my students to submit three prompts derived from poems in Natalie Diaz’s When My Brother Was an Aztec. This is one of them. 6. If Eve Side-Stealer & Mary Busted Chest Ruled the World Write a … Continue reading →

I am looking at the printing involved on a prescription pill bottle.  The markings are black and printed on a white and light blue background.  The surface is sticky paper, which is wrapped around the bottle.  The surface is smooth … Continue reading →

I found this at my family home during my last visit, inside a communal desk crammed full of pens, pencils and old notebooks, for the taking.  My stepdad was a firefighter in the forest service 40some years ago, but he … Continue reading →

This is a postcard, bought rather informally at the Bread and Puppet Museum in Glover, Vermont, last summer. The Bread and Puppet Theater started in the ‘60’s in New York, but I associate it (as do most) with the unfussy … Continue reading →

At first glance, this appears to be a picture about my cat: However, this is actually a picture about the paper documents my cat has decided to make his seat. I fanned this papers out on my dining room table … Continue reading →