CA Lockdown – Day 17

It’s Sourdough Sunday! I’ve been feeding my starter for 5 days and am finally baking with it!! Every time I feed my sourdough starter, I drain off enough “discard” to keep the starter at about 1/4 cup. Sourdough discard can be used to make an...

CA Lockdown – Day 16

Today I’m reflecting on masks. During the influenza epidemic of 1918, masks were mandatory. There were three waves of influenza to hit planet Earth in the early 1900’s with the second wave being the deadliest. It appears that folks got careless after...

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 13

It’s April Fools plus two birthdays! Quarantine Birthdays suck. My adventurous little cousin Tina turns 34 today and I can’t even bake her a cake. The stores were totally cleared out of cake mix before the lockdown started. There’s no flour, yeast or...