NEW SITE! “Dey of the Phoenix” archived.

DOTP readers, thanks for your subscriptions! This web site now is an archive. Its posts range from 2008 to mid-2016.

Please visit my new site, femestiza.com, which will be launched between late May and early June 2018.

Also I’m on Facebook with an artist page and a community page for project La Puenta.

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Summer 2016 from the Mitten

Milham Park, Kalamazoo, Michigan, August 2016.

Milham Park, Kalamazoo, Michigan, August 2016.

Summer greetings, readers of Dey of the Phoenix!  Final weeks of brilliant green are upon us in the Mitten.  I’ve been enjoying spring-to-summer mostly from Michigan. Since May I’ve been Stateside taking in my home-root of Kalamazoo and heart-root of Lansing, digging into family time while reconnecting with the land. Continue reading

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Artist Residency: Closing Out Cusco

Art in sacred space, Healing House community meeting on March 30, 2016. Works from this session were integrated into the installation “Where We Move | Donde Nos Movemos”.

These months in Cusco have been tremendous! The core of my artist residency has been facilitating collective-art experiences at Healing House: Continue reading

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Walking the Beauty Path in a Hurting World

hands-565661_960_720Friends, I send greetings from San Blas, Cusco. I am diligently working on installations for an exhibition opening here April 8.

Meanwhile, the world turns. In Brussels this morning there were bombings. Continue reading

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Cusco Artist Residency: In Progress!

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March Greetings! I’m happy to share a gallery of my current artist residency at Healing House in Cusco, Peru.  Two of three workshops have taken place and the first in an open-mic series.  At the same time I’m growing project … Continue reading

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Finding the Still Point

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February 2016. Milham Park at sunset. Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Stand still in that which shows and discovers.
~George Fox

Happy Tuesday morning with sunshine from my neighborhood of San Blas! Our solar star is making a strong appearance here in recent days. I’m grateful for its warmth and brilliance, and still truly missing Winter back in Michigan. While Stateside in early February with family for my birthday, I enjoyed a couple of days with white dust, enough to make a snow angel–and, bonus, flakes were freshly falling! Continue reading

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Artist Residency Kick-Off! Cusco

HH2016artdaysScldGood morning from the neighborhood of San Blas in Cusco, Peru! Today begins programming in my four-month artist residency at Healing House, Continue reading

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“be Beauty”, poem

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Photo by MDH. Lake Superior, Porcupine Mountains. Aug. 3, 2014.

Greetings from Cusco, Peru! Stories are percolating for future blogs here on Dey of the Phoenix. I look forward to sharing in short order and more often. Continue reading

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Supporting La Puenta

AltHolidayPoster2015scldI send warm greetings this snowy morning from East Lansing, Michigan! It’s exciting to vend at the annual Alternative Holiday Sale Continue reading

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Emergence: Out of the Box

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Recently, I blogged about my creative exploration of the theme “emergence” since 2013. From poetry to performance to book art, I envisioned a community-based exhibition to culminate the experience. Now the Greater-Lansing collaboration Emergence: Out of the Box is fulfilling … Continue reading

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