Sketch journal June 2023
I took a calligraphy class as a young woman in Napa California. It must have been 1978 or 1979. I wasn’t great at it, but I was motivated to practice. And I still love...
Category: calligraphy
Inky
I’ve had a long relationship with ink. Maybe as long as thread. We were not allowed to use ballpoint pens in my Catholic grade school to learn penmanship. We had to use fountain pens...
Je n’ai pas peur
Confession: my relationship with words is broken. I used to write poetry, but I haven’t written any in a long time. Except for a few feeble attempts at haiku that don’t have staying power....
courage
Working on brush calligraphy. It is a search for phrases that I want to use for practice. There is a reaction to the words I choose, sometimes strong. I find this phrase enchanting in...
we grew tired of it
From the Sixth Declaration of the Selva Lacandona calligraphy practice