Saturday, June 7, 2014




Street Portraits from my first friday at the Farmers market this summer 2013. There were a few clouds and even the eminent threat of thunder roaring in the background, but we made it through without getting wet. It was an amazing first week, my fellow venders, Molly Mason from my community college was there and I met some new farmer friends as well. A few of the guys invited me and a friend Sebastian to come visit their farm! I was so excited, with the paper I'm writing, and my interest in learning more about sustainable living, I will surely be taking them up on that invitation. Weather or not that happens before or after Yosemite I don't know yet for sure. All I know is life has an interesting way of presenting you with what you seek. I will be at the market again next week and the week after I will be returning back home to Hawaii for my beautiful sister Ashley's wedding. Once I return I will be graduating with my AA, a degree I have been working on for three years and I couldn't be happier to turn the page in the book of my life. To new endeavors, to heightened measures and to enlightened living, happy days. 

Friday, June 6, 2014




Allowing this piece to dry out and will be bisque firing early next week. I'm nervous to glaze, last experience with my previous piece, wasn't successful.  This is a symbolic self portrait for my intermediate ceramics class at Lake Tahoe Community College. I have been working a lot with Yin and Yang and I see these two characters as being symbolic as two sides of who I am. The eyes convey my absorption of my surroundings and the tree symbolizes my ability to stay rooted. We only have three weeks left in the quarter and today the farmers market starts up again so I am reeving up my summer engines and getting ready for my road trip in October and ready to start landscape painting with Dave Russo this Sunday. 
Cheers!