Exude

Description ex⋅ude /ig’zud/verb1. release (a liquid) in drops or small quantitiessyn: exudate, transude, ooze out, ooze2. make apparent by one’s mood or behavior The school yearbook photo of the Artist in 5th grade; the time right before or at the onset of puberty and loss of innocence; the time right before the discovery of gender […]

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Lake Monster

Description Where the water meets the rocks, waves constructively interfere at incomprehensible intervals to form the creature known as the lake monster, visible only for mere fractions of a second. Is that a person reaching up into the sky? Are they holding a giant hammer? Are those tentacles? What is it trying to say? What […]

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Body Awareness

Description An image taken from a Jacuzzi overlooking Anishinaabewi-gichigami (Anishinaabe’s Sea also known as Lake Superior). Water held in a large enough container is called a body. Being in water can heighten awareness of the body, especially its weight, shape, buoyancy, and temperature. We are all beings with bodies composed primarily of water. Our bodies […]

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Maintenance

Description Here I was, downtown Minneapolis, the city of my childhood. All my life I looked up at the skyscrapers with the dream that one day I would be looking down instead of up. For a glorious year, 2019, I enjoyed some fruits of my labor. I made it to the top floor, over 400 […]

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