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  • Dumb er

    A book/box of drawings of abandoned rock collections found on the street or by the side of the road that don’t  necessarily belong to the land they were found on. It feels sometimes ridiculous to make a book of drawings of found ordinary rocks, peoples abandoned collections that at one time meant  so much. If it was about the  beauty of the land, a moment in time, a keepsake of time and place, I think it’s important and a beautiful opportunity to honor it.

    wood, ink, cotton, collage, stone, wood box – 2025

  • Wander/Wonder

    A birch bark box of single page books attached to a piece of granite with abstract landscape paintings on the “book covers” containing texts of wanderings and wonderings. Wonderings, such as, “do snakes laugh” or  “where  do birds sleep” while wandering through fields and streams.

    (private collection)

  • INSTRUCTIONS

    Instructions for alternative landscape drawing. A drawing kit in an old box containing a book of instructions, ink and charcoal, a pencil, eraser, sharpener, measuring tape, compass, and a found blue crayon. The first 2 drawings were made in late December down in Santa Cruz. (Lauri)

  • THE MORNING AFTER

    From April 2024 shots of the Telegraph & 51st intersection on the morning after sideshow. I recall that in places the rubber was quite thick and still fragrant. 2 years later some traces of the “drawings” still remain. (Peter)

  • OLLAS

    OLLAs in our raised bed gardens “JOAN” & “STANLEY” up at the land. An olla (pronounced oya) is an unglazed ceramic pot buried in the soil and filled with water as a method of irrigation. We made lids for the ollas to slow evaporation. The plants are crimson clover used for soil nutrition and California native wildflowers  for seed collection for our land. (Lauri)

    Traditional ollas are made of unglazed porous red clay. The clay used in these ollas is soldate and is only fired to bisque. Small holes have been carved into the coiled pots to allow water to seep out into the garden.  The ollas are filled with water from nearby cistern water collected by the metal rooftop of garden shade structure.

    Bisque-fired Unglazed Ollas