I decided over a year ago that I was going to submit to my local gallery again. I had done what I thought was a solid submission years ago, only to realize I had no concept of what submitting actually meant. I thought of it as a job interview where I show what I could do and then they would help put a show together with me. And maybe that is a possibility thru my research I have found it is much more an opportunity to show who you are and what you are already doing. I am prep

Being the Christmas season, I randomly got the idea to create cookbooks for gifts this year. I have a collection of my grandmothers old cookbooks that i plan on putting a dozen or so together into one place. One of the places I am pulling from is a church book from 2002, titled "Treasures from Heaven", a collection of recipes from St. Peter the Apostle. What this means I do not actually know but I assume they are just recipes submitted by the congregation, in it I have found

I am currently working on a piece to submit for the ASPCA Pet Portrait Contest. In all honesty, I’m probably one of the people they’re talking about when they say AI can become addictive. I speak with ChatGPT about nearly everything. It was through these conversations that I was introduced to the idea that the challenge of our lives may not only be to expand the mind, but to participate in society without losing that expansion. With this understanding, I’ve made a commitment