The Emperor’s New Bird

 I love the notion of per­formed spon­tane­ity, in that it gets at the fact that what seems nat­ur­al, or impro­vi­sa­tion­al, is still a prod­uct of deci­sion mak­ing, and still leads to a con­scious­ly made thing—a mechan­i­cal nightin­gale rather than the real bird that hap­pens to fly in the win­dow.” Diane Seuss inter­view with Jesse Nathan … 

Shetland Islands/Wool Week 2019

In September of 2019 I joined my sis­ter Beth for Wool Week in the Shetland Islands. These are the places that we went and the things we saw. (Click through the gal­leries for more infor­ma­tion in the pic­ture descrip­tions.) Lerwick Lerwick is the capi­tol city of Shetland. We stayed in an apart­ment just up the …