I thought you might be interested in a touch of behind-the-scenes for Giving Voice. It has been such a marriage of ancient and digital processes! If, when I began the illuminated manuscript in 2013, I’d had any idea how much time I’d spend grinding mokume gane, how much software I’d have to learn, or how many sleepless nights I’d spend worrying that Apple Books wouldn’t work with the animations, or that my indie publishing company would try 4, (yes 4!) different book printers before one got it right (I love you BookMobile!), I’m not sure I would have had the tenacity to see this baby through its elephantine gestation.
But I did. One could say, when it comes to mammoth projects, I tend to persist. I’m a” hell or high water” kind of person. My husband frequently reminds me that, together, we’ve never failed. True. Humbling, daunting. But true.
For Mothers Day today, my son gave me a gift certificate from my favorite garden store, my husband gave me AirPods, and a hacker group in Turkey hijacked my brand new website. (Rest assured! No evidence of hacking anyone’s data on the site but mine.) Instead of enjoying my garden with my AirPods in my…
Smell is the sense most strongly linked to memory. While I’ve always had a wildly accurate long term memory (I can remember my first birthday and party) my sense of smell has long been diminished by allergies. Maybe it’s my giving up and giving in and stopping all the benadryl and steroid sprays, but for…
From stardust we are fired and scattered, aggregated and evolved, only to spend our limited existence seeking to aggregate, create, and evolve quickly before the light burns away back into stardust. I wrote that one day at my local coffee shop in the middle of writing something else entirely. Apparently, while one part of my…
Architectural metalwork by Victoria Lansford incorporates ancient techniques utilized on large scale projects for contemporary spaces 1 of 2 projects for a 69 meter, custom built superyacht – stay tuned for more progress photos