Last month the new Sugar Space Gallery in Indy (developed by fellow Herron alums Danielle Joy Graves and Nick Witten) kicked off with a Post-It Show at the Tube Factory Artspace.
Amy took home one of my drawings:
books (2017)
This year, I read more novels than I’d read in awhile. After growing up on them, I’ve been reading more and more nonfiction in recent years. Twenty-two of the books below were written by women. 42%, not quite up to half. Books can show you things you don’t believe, too, and should. Expansion, integration, mystery – yes to both.
(I read this poem by Mary Oliver, many times.)
In the coming year, I want to read more artist biographies, more science books, more by contemplatives and mystics, more novels that are the kind people call “sweeping”. I want to read more poetry. After looking through a few essays from my last semester of college, I also want to write and talk more about what I’m reading. It seems important to practice holding articulation and uncertainty together.
fall sketchbook
fall/ish 2017
+ bonus from bell hooks:
the “act of opening is a way of seeking love.”
process project / weeks 9-17
books (2016)
- Bel Canto, Ann Patchett
- If You Find This Letter: My Journey to Find Purpose Through Hundreds of Letters to Strangers, Hannah Brencher
- Every Good Endeavor, Timothy Keller with Katherine Leary Alsdorf
- Home, Marilynne Robinson
- Lila, Marilynne Robinson
- Watership Down, Richard Adams
- Erotic Ambiguities: The Female Nude in Art, Helen McDonald
- Drawing From Life: The Journal as Art, Jennifer New
- Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
- Out of the Silent Planet, C.S. Lewis
- 40 Days of Dating: An Experiment, Jessica Walsh and Timothy Goodman
- I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban, Malala Yousafzai with Christina Lamb
- Perelandra, C.S. Lewis
- The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
- Mindfulness: 25 Ways to Live in the Moment Through Art, Christophe Andre
- Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead, Sheryl Sandberg
- Dog Songs, Mary Oliver
- Color: A Natural History of the Palette, Victoria Finlay
- Bad Feminist, Roxane Gay
- Pictures & Tears: A History of People Who Have Cried in Front of Paintings, James Elkins
- No Matter the Wreckage, Sarah Kay
- One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories, B.J. Novak
- The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
- Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard
- That Hideous Strength, C.S. Lewis
- The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
- Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival Resilience, and Redemption, Laura Hillenbrand
- How We Are Hungry, Dave Eggers
- A Short Guide to Writing About Art, Sylvan Barnet
- Destruction Was My Beatrice: Dada and the Unmaking of the Twentieth Century, Jed Rasula
- Women in Clothes, Sheila Heti, Heidi Julavits, and Leanne Shapton
- Small Wonder, Barbara Kingsolver
- Modern Arab Art: Formation of Arab Aesthetics, Nada M. Shabout
- Stardust: Supernovae and Life – The Cosmic Connection, John Gribbin
- Slaugherhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
- *Still: Notes on a Mid-Faith Crisis, Lauren F. Winner
- CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, George Saunders
- A Poetry Handbook, Mary Oliver
- The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Joseph Campbell
- Pastoralia, George Saunders
- H is for Hawk, Helen MacDonald
- Remote Control: Power, Culture, and the World of Appearances, Barbara Kruger
- Buddhism for Beginners, Thubten Chodron
- The Agony and the Ecstasy, Irving Stone
- Fool Me Once, Harlan Coban
- Cold Tangerines, Shauna Niequist
- Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice, Shunryu Suzuki
- McSweeney’s #44, edited by Dave Eggers
- Myths of Light: Eastern Metaphors of the Eternal, Joseph Campbell
- A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L’Engle
- Cambodia’s Curse: The Modern History of a Troubled Land, Joel Brinkley
- *Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church, Rachel Held Evans
- Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, Bryan Stevenson
- The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable, Amitav Ghosh
- The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
- This is the Story of a Happy Marriage, Ann Patchett
- How to be Both, Ali Smith
- Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality, Donald Miller
- Thirst: Poems, Mary Oliver
- Evidence: Poems, Mary Oliver
- The Book of Buddhas: Ritual Symbolism Used on Buddhist Statuary and Ritual Objects, Eva Rudy Jansen
- Swan: Poems and Prose Poems, Mary Oliver
- The Circle, Dave Eggers
- TED Talks: The Official TED Guide to Public Speaking, Chris J. Anderson
- The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
* = re-read
