I like to explore and tell descriptive stories about places. I also make jewelry, music and mixed-media art.
This past weekend, I attended the annual gourd festival in Casagrande, Arizona which takes place the second weekend of February at Pinal county fairground and is hosted by the Wuertz family with their gourd farm down the road. Since I have recently started painting gourds, this event is useful and also inspiring. There are raw […]
Read More Gourd festival, Casagrande, azThis past weekend, I attended the annual gourd festival in casagrande, arizona which takes place the second weekend of February at Pinal county fairground and is hosted by the Weurtz family with their gourd farm down the road. Since I have recently started painting gourds, this event is useful and also inspiring. There are raw […]
Read More Gourd festival, Casagrande, azAugust, 2014 The turquoise and black patterns of the Pomo dancers circle around the dance ground at the Napa Valley powwow in Yountville, CA. As the drumsticks click, I ponder the local nation’s homeland to the east, Clear Lake, and what it would be like to visit. I’ve been staying with my friend in Sonoma […]
Read More CLEAR LAKE & HARBIN HOT SPRINGS, CALIFORNIAoriginally posted April 2010 Jessica Powell and Brian Goforth want to bathe in a waterfall as a wedding ritual. Her dress will not just sit in the closet for years after their wedding, wearable but unworn; she will let the water and the rocks rip the dress into a mess of memories. And they will […]
Read More Go Forth into the Waterfall: Pisgah and Dupont Forests, North CarolinaOriginally written April, 2010 Travel dates: March, 2010 It’s been two weeks since the latest coal mining disaster in West Virginia, and this one has received considerable media attention. This being an explosion inside a mine in the town of Montcoal, about 30 miles southwest of Charleston (the link just above has a detailed map […]
Read More COAL, INTERRUPTED: Coal River, West VirginiaThe mural is on Crenshaw Blvd between 50th and 52nd Sts. This is a part of the mural. Visited March 2015
Read More Crenshaw Mural of African-American Progress, Los Angeles, CAMarch, 2015 I have a work gig in San Diego, which would be my first visit to California’s most southern coastal city. The weather is fabulous – sunny and 70’s-80’s temperatures – and the people here are calm and happy (and probably spoiled). Balboa Park, home of the famous San Diego zoo, also has […]
Read More San Diego, CAthe Eureka Inn Eureka, CA, October 2013 From the thick woods of Humboldt county, Eureka and Arcata feel like big pillars of civilization, sister city-states on the Humboldt Bay guarded on three sides by rugged mountains. Of course, facing northwest on the Pacific coast, this area is often cool and foggy. I had heard tales […]
Read More Eureka, CA: “Eureeka’s Castle”
arianna's creative travels 