I invite worlds
to make themselves visible
in images and words.

That’s another way to say, “I write and illustrate.” What questions hold my work together?

Borderlands: the boundaries between what we know and don’t know, between science and myth, reality and fantasy. What is real? What is true … and in what sense?

Metaphor: For us language-using humans, what is unnamed seems to have no being yet. How do we wait for the Unseen and Unnamed to emerge, be clothed in metaphor, and become the Seen and Named?

Cultures: What frames, metaphors, and expectations clothe the unnamed that pours toward us, endlessly, out of the Gate?

Conversation: in the bewildering universe, how do we stumble along compassionately with one another?

Hiking in the desert: What is the value of walks in unimportant places, where the marks of human culture are light as rabbit footprints in the wilderness of deep time?

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