Day of the Dead Open Studio

A Deva Luna Open Studio in celebration of the the Day of the Dead and Honoring the Ancestors during this crossroads of the season. Paintings, prints, cards, stickers, small works on canvas, altars and artifacts, gifties, folk magic miscellanea and curiosities to pique interest and inspire! Nibbles, spirits and sippables will be on hand to sustain and refresh. All with la Dia de los Muertos flavor in the mix. Get a jump on holiday shopping and support a small local artista-owned business! One day only, Sunday October 30 from 11am to 6pm in the SRJC neighborhood, Santa Rosa at the back of 907 McConnell Avenue (Entrance on Beaver Street). Hope to see you there!

Moon Woman Rising Interview Part 2

Part 2 of my interview with Aja Blanc on her Moon Woman Rising blog can now be read here in the Arts section. I am really honored to be featured on such a beautiful site created "to nourish the feminine spirit".

Moon Woman Rising Interview

Moon Woman Rising is a beautiful blog honoring the sacred feminine written by Aja Blanc. She recently invited me to speak with her and you can read Part 1 of our 2 part interview under the Arts section here.

Deva Luna Open StudioSolstice 2010

Stoking the fire and breaking out the spirits and nibbles. All are invited to come hang out and poke about. New works large and small. Lots of giftie items: canvases, prints, cards, stickers, magnets, altars and painted artifacts. Also various magickal miscellanea will be on offer: petition and blessing candles inscribed and dressed, spell boxes, elixirs and custom sigils. LOCATION: 907 McConnell Avenue in the JC neighborhood in Santa Rosa. It's a corner address and the entrance is on Beaver St. Look for signage!

Moon Poem

I've been so low and dissolved, waiting for the latent to surge...feeling downright lunar.

My moon poem:

Over her
ancient face
of milk light
and rime,
shadows in flux
pulse time
and trace
the estuary shallows
pushed in
from the deep.

Small child
she dogs
sees a boat
glow above
the tree,
revealing
the weight
of gravity.
Hide and seeking

in thickets,
unraveling tangled
willow switches,
she plays out
the game,
riding dark waves
in a storied wind.

Illumination,
astride the night,
submerging
to burgeon
again
and again.

Shining through
the wax and melt
of millenniums,
she heard
the first voices
intuit her whisper
rippled over
the surface,
a pull to
knowing.

She has spoken
through waters
and risen saps,
through shoots
and lunacy.
Wizened thin
to a sickle
or dissolved
into black,
her touch
a tug of fingers
felt upon the weft
and root.

Blown full
in atmospheres
of dusk,
she stirs the
heart cup
to a blood spiral
and eggs break
into flower.
Her spell is
wide cast,
a slip silver ocean,
to catch fast
the sensitive
and hold still
reflections
of mirrored
change in
her silent ring
of snake song.

Solar plate etching "Iowa Moonlight" by Nancy Lindsay.

Solstice Open Studio

I am having another Open Studio and everyone's invited to come soak up some holiday cheer, cast trouble in the fire, eat, drink and be merry when I open the studio up for two days in December. The 12th and 13th from 11am until 4 pm.

A warm refuge from winter weather, a place to peruse and poke about and perhaps find the perfect gift for that particular person, the open studio will have new small worx. prints, cards and canvases, small giftie items and various painted tidbits on offer. As usual, sippable liquids, spirits and savory nibbles will be on hand to sustain those who drop by. If you're lucky, the cob oven may even be in operation, weather permitting. Hope to see you there!

Reading at Kaldi's

Published at last!

Many of you know that local poet Amy Trussell and I have been working for a few years now on a collaborative project of poetry and paintings. The Painted Tongue Flowers has finally hit the press! Deva Luna Press has published it's first book, an elegant volume of voluptuous poetry and vibrant color images.

We are launching our book on Friday, December 11th at Kaldi's Pearl Tea and Coffee from 5:30 to 6:30 pm in east Santa Rosa out on Hwy 12 in the Skyhawk Market center. Everyone's invited to come hear Amy read selections from the book and get your first copy. The 100 page book of 28 poems and full color images with be available for $15 and each will be signed by the artistas themselves.

What a lovely holiday gift!

TO PURCHASE ONLINE VISIT HERE

Hope to see you there.