Everything is about timing. The last entry was 2016. A lot has transformed since then. I opened and and closed my design business in Seattle, went back to teaching full time, sold my house in Seattle, bought another one in Seattle with my daughters, moved from Seattle to Bellingham, WA., worked as a development director, (that job ended with COVID-19), fell in love and now I live in Toronto, Ontario. So yes, change is constant.

The thing that hasn’t changed for me is my love of the creative process. My creative life has mostly found its focus in the world of fiber. Designing and creating clothing for women, making hats, simple shoes and leather goods, All very practical and functional…. for the most part.

When I was 18, my father gave me my first 35mm camera. Going off to art school and I remember feeling so excited… when I looked through the lens how that action opened an entirely new way of seeing the world. Cropping out what I didn’t want, focusing in on details I liked, understanding perspective, vantage points and finding my point of view at that time in my young life. It was revelatory!

In the past ten or so years, I have spent more and more time with my camera. In the last five years, I rediscovered how much I love it and found a new way of expressing myself through it. In my travels I discovered that what was more important to me was the image rather than all the technical parts of taking a picture. So I abandoned that need to know, in favor of just capturing the moment. The result has been sort of a from-the-window-of-my-car approach. it’s focused and sometimes it’s not. Isn’t that the way it is out of our car windows?