A Flood of Words: Following A Path New & Familiar

I named the green wall at my studio a River of Words with the hope that friends would write quotes, words, or poem fragments that had meaning for them. The wall is gathering words and I wanted to share some of them with you. The first photos are me adding the first word fragments.




Miss Sam of Lil' Gypsy is always game to play along and wrote some of the earliest words alongside of me.



My sis wrote about always having hope.


Hailey, a neighbor girl, wrote some words and drew a heart.


My nephew stopped to pick up some art, so I handed him a pen and asked him to write before he left.


Even my parents visited my studio and wrote some words.





Neighbors Destree and Olivia popped over to leave their marks.




Stephanie K made her contribution when she was down from Portland for a recent play date.


Some of the snippets that were written during last weekend's Open Studio tour in Salem:






Next time you're at the studio, please grab a pen . . .

A River of Words

I recently brainstormed about how to transform an ugly rock wall on the front of my studio - I even solicited ideas on Facebook (and got some great suggestions). In the end, I decided to paint the wall a solid color and to add poem fragments and phrases to the grouted area between the rocks. Here is the wall before the transformation began. B O R I N G


My dear husband came over one evening and power washed the dirt and grime off the wall of rocks (and also painted a layer of primer, but that process was not photo worthy).


Howard let me do the first swipe of ceremonial painting . . . .


. . . and then he took over to get the real coverage done.


Yesterday I started writing poetry fragments on the grout.




My friend Sam was over at the studio for a play date, so I enlisted her to add her touch.





I will continue to experiment with the best black pens to use and will also be inviting other studio guests and playmates to add their words. In the meantime, I'll be adding word fragments each time I'm at the studio so that my River of Words will begin to flow.