Monthly Archives: July 2025

As I’m about to board a plane to LA, I get an email I’d been dreading. It puts me in a foul mood throughout Soutwest’s cattle-call. So much that I refuse to give up my first-row aisle seat for a late-arriving paraplegic. I feel like a selfish asshole but am in no condition for anotherContinue reading “Creatures”

I hadn’t made a mixtape for someone in a decade before K came along. Now I make them all the time. To be clear, these are not the canonical cassette variety but recordable CDs. I found a bunch in my desk drawer, biding their time, sure they’d be of use once more. Now there areContinue reading “Mixtapes”

I’d never heard of the Highland Clearances when June Sawyers asked me to illustrate her play about them. That play, along with Sawyers’ book on the subject, Bearing the People Away, proved to be invaluable resources as I worked away at the twenty-seven watercolor and Sumi ink paintings that comprise my contribution to her project.Continue reading “The Highland Clearances”