Instructions for living a life:
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.
- Mary Oliver, from Red Bird
Dear Ordinary is for anyone who finds comfort in making things by hand, even if they are small or unfinished. Sometimes the art that feeds us most is not careful or arranged. It is the stack of books left on the counter, the blue and gold of the evening, the quiet work you do with no one watching. These are the moments that show us how beauty lives in the middle of everything.
Every month, I send a postcard from my desk. Each one carries a drawing or painting - plain, truthful, nothing more. It’s a way to stay close, to remember what it feels like to make something just to make it. I am grateful to share these pieces. If you also look for beauty in the ordinary, I hope you’ll let me send them to you.
- Each card holds an image from my latest work, vivid and whole.
- There is a reflection - a way of seeing, or perhaps just noticing, what lives inside the piece.
- You’ll find an invitation, too: a prompt for your own dear ordinary.
- And, tucked in, a code. It grants you early passage to the original work.