CA Lockdown – Day 19

Juvenile Garden. My little plants have entered their awkward teens. The corn has started sprouting shafts. Right now it looks like giant tufts of crabgrass. Behind them, I finished building some new planters. They’re entirely composed of salvaged materials we...

CA Lockdown – Day 15

Today we launch our weekly Dreamocracy in America videocast! Why the obsession with De Toqueville? As mentioned in our Creative Capital presentation, Alexis de Tocqueville came to the U.S, in 1831 to study our prisons and as a result analysed the political and social...

CA Lockdown – Day 14

Who knew Quarantine Life would be so intense? There’s so much to do! A year ago Payan and I won the prestigious Creative Capital art award & fellowship. As a result, these past 12 months have been a whirlwind of travel and expansion of our creative practice....

CA Lockdown – Day 12

My Victory Garden is thriving. Lettuce celebrate! I feel like I’m on the verge of despair but then I go out to the garden and it all melts away. Doubts, fears, and the uncertainty over how this whole crisis will play out have little room when seeds are...

CA Lockdown – Day 11

I have Plague Poetry on my mind. This morning I read an article about folks that are fleeing metropolitan centers to gypsy around in vans: https://jezebel.com/influencers-are-social-distancing-by-ignoring-lockdown-1842560076 This reminds me of the 14th century...