Tickling God’s beard is a humorous comment…….

"Matter Gone Wild" is the name of an exhibition at Southern Oregon University's Thorndike Gallery in Ashland, Oregon. “Matter gone wild” is one answer to the question “What Is life?”

I just returned from a wonderful three-day symposium at the University of Massachusetts Amherst entitled "Celebrating a Life in Science: In Memory of Lynn Margulis." Dr. Margulis was an American biologist and University Professor in the Department of Geosciences at UMA and one of the greatest scientists of our era.

It's not hard to see why the peacock, a multi-hued swan-size bird, is emblematic of beauty, grace, and pride.

A young botanist, in response to this painting, wrote: "Something that often strikes me at moments of tragedy in my own life, or the lives of friends is how at every moment, everything is happening across the spectrum of existence.”

Spider silk — the stuff spiders spin their web with — is five times as strong as an equal amount of steel.

After reading David Abrams’ The Spell of the Sensuous, I changed the title of one of my paintings from Tree Goddess to Tree Woman.

In 1971, I worked as assistant costumer to Enrico Sabbatini on the award-winning film Sacco and Vanzetti.

Life in the Italian cinema was a great adventure for a twenty-something American female costume designer.

Within each living cell are various structures that are the containers, like the pots in which flowers grow, or the pods that hold seeds.

Russian scientist Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky (1863-1945), founder of the biosphere concept, saw living matter as the greatest of all geological forces. In this painting, photosynthesizing red and green bacteria, algae, and plants are transforming the sun’s energy, (shown as photons) into a “green fire.”

Three of my dioramas are in the Artist Books Exhibit at Illahe Studios and Gallery in Ashland, OR through April 2011. Each “page” is a self-portrait that transcends the personal story through its archetypal imagery.

"Ode to the Eurkaryote" depicts an imaginary paradise (para + deisos in ancient Persian, meaning "enclosed garden") inhabited by fish and lizards and birds. “Paradise” also came to mean a place of supreme beauty.

How long have artists been depicting dancers? As far back as the Stone Age, about 20,000 years ago.

In "Dancing Scissors" I have used scissors rather than brushes or pencils or pens to create the dancers.

The series “Dancing Brush” was born when I took an easel and paper, brush and ink to the Ecstatic Dance gatherings that took place every Sunday morning in Ashland.