View fullsize boy oh boy, what whirlwind of a weekend I just had as the artisan in residence at the Ocean House back home in Rhode Island—4 days + 3 meet & greets + 2 workshops + 1 lecture = 1 very sleepy boy. thank you so much to @oceanhouseri for this
View fullsize a little bit of exciting news - I’ll be spending this upcoming weekend back in RI at the Ocean House, as this month’s Artisan in Residence! . the Ocean House is an enormous historic hotel in my hometown that was built in the 1860s and liv
View fullsize fuck I am sad today. sad in the way where it‘s hard to walk, where my limbs feel deflated and my chest feels like there’s not enough room in there for my lungs to work right; in the way where it’s hard to talk to anyone because I th
View fullsize how magic, to meet someone you so admire and they turn out to be even more amazing than you imagined - that’s what it’s been like working as a studio assistant for the rope queen herself @windychien!! I’ve spent the past few weeks l
View fullsize moving across the country without a plan was, I am realizing, an objectively stupid idea. and in some moments it’s paid off wildly—I feel happier than I’ve ever felt and I feel like I’m becoming the person I want to be and I f
View fullsize today I’m thinking about being a beginner and how that’s really hard for me, how I’m not great at trying new things or doing things that I don’t feel super confident in doing. I think it’s self-consciousness—I don&
View fullsize it’s officially been three weeks since i moved to california and i still wake up every morning and have to take a moment to remember where i am. and i’m having so much big fun and i have friends who are taking such good care of me and the
View fullsize this time last year, i wrote about how it’s nice to breathe and reflect around the new year but that ultimately, it’s a silly holiday because the next day i would wake up and still be the exact same person I had been the day before. but o
View fullsize I had my last therapy session with my PVD therapist yesterday. two and a half years of sitting on the same leather couch looking out the same window, two and a half years of digging and learning and crying and growing, two and a half years doing some
View fullsize i’m trying to make fewer decisions that are based on fear. i cut my hair, quit my job, and signed a lease across the country and damn I am trying to figure out how to not be terrified of everything going wrong. but one time i read something som
View fullsize cat’s out of the bag so I might as well let it run wild - I’m moving to California!! today!! yesterday I got on a plane in Boston with a duffel bag of books and pillows, two suitcases full of clothes, and a backpack of special things and
View fullsize i’ve been having the sort of time lately where my tummy hurts all the time and everything is making me feel nervous and overwhelmed and i’m trying to find lessons in the hard stuff and trying to make sure i breathe all the way and make su
View fullsize this one’s for you, nana. we are blessed beyond measure to have known your strength, your love, your faith, and the best homemade pasta a boy could ever dream of. i hope you’re resting easy with two big cups of wine and a whole box of che
View fullsize hiya pals! at the beginning of this year I was accepted into this amazing program called Assets for Artists through the incomparable MASS MoCA and damn, it has been a truly special experience. I’m proud to say that I graduated the program and I
View fullsize lately the world feels like it’s ending a lot of the time in so many ways and i’m thinking a lot lately about who i am in the world, how I see myself, the parts of me that I want to change and what I’m afraid to lose, thinking about
View fullsize damn, you all show me a lot more love than I sometimes feel like I deserve. thank you, thank you, thank you. I came across some words about love yesterday that resonated deeply with me, written by someone I deeply admire, that I want to share with yo
View fullsize something that helps me be brave when I’m feeling scared or nervous (which is to say, always) is the idea that: I can figure it out. I was nervous to make this piece—double-sided, six layers, made in my studio then taken apart and transpo
View fullsize happy coming out day!!! coming out was super traumatizing for me over and over and over again and I am one of the lucky ones, i have more love than I know what to do with and i’m so thankful for that but fuck, I hope someday no one ever has to
View fullsize settling into the comfort of fall: making some new seasonal @spotify playlists so I can hibernate in my studio and my bed and also in my feelings, listening to an absurd amount of @gordimusic, over and over again with the hauntingly beautiful ‘
View fullsize a kind, kindred stranger sent me a message the other day and one part of it said: “I know that you don’t have to do these things, or be open this way, or love yourself and others so deeply, it’s so much easier to shut it off. so tha