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decoding="async" width="1024" height="768" src="https://lucybellwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/IMG_6539-1024x768.jpeg" alt="A rumpled quilt of blue squares with visible white stitching." class="wp-image-8156" srcset="https://lucybellwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/IMG_6539-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https://lucybellwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/IMG_6539-300x225.jpeg 300w, https://lucybellwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/IMG_6539-768x576.jpeg 768w, https://lucybellwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/IMG_6539-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://lucybellwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/IMG_6539-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://lucybellwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/IMG_6539-2000x1500.jpeg 2000w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px"></figure> <p>Still chipping away at this quilt I started on a whim in the spring.</p> </div> <footer class="entry-footer"> <span class="posted-on"><a href="https://lucybellwood.com/firmament/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published" 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tag-audra-mcnamee tag-comics tag-libraries tag-library tag-minicomic tag-portland tag-public-library tag-self-publishing-2 tag-shay-mirk tag-zine tag-zines"> <div class="hentry-wrapper"> <header class="entry-header" > <div class="entry-header-wrapper"> <div class="entry-meta"><span class="cat-links"><a href="https://lucybellwood.com/category/blog/delights/" rel="category tag">Delights</a>, <a href="https://lucybellwood.com/category/blog/reading/" rel="category tag">Reading</a></span></div><h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://lucybellwood.com/i-strongly-recommend-the-library/" rel="bookmark">I Strongly Recommend the Library</a></h2> </div> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-audra-mcnamee wp-block-embed-audra-mcnamee"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper"> <blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="5ML42S99VX"><a href="https://audmcname.com/comics/mini-zine-i-strongly-recommend-the-library/">Mini zine: I Strongly Recommend the Library</a></blockquote><iframe class="wp-embedded-content" sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" style="position: absolute; visibility: hidden;" title="“Mini zine: I Strongly Recommend the Library” — audra mcnamee" src="https://audmcname.com/comics/mini-zine-i-strongly-recommend-the-library/embed/#?secret=x7QA3VEFJR#?secret=5ML42S99VX" data-secret="5ML42S99VX" width="600" height="338" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no"></iframe> </div><figcaption class="wp-element-caption"><strong><em>“A zine made w/ excitement and haste”!!!</em></strong></figcaption></figure> <p>(Sidebar: Audra just co-launched a new nonfiction comics outfit called <a href="https://www.crucialcomix.com/about-us/">Crucial Comix</a> with one of my very favorite human beings, <a href="https://www.mirkwork.com/">Shay Mirk</a>.)</p> </div> <footer class="entry-footer"> <span class="posted-on"><a href="https://lucybellwood.com/i-strongly-recommend-the-library/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2024-10-18T11:19:37-07:00">October 18, 2024</time><time class="updated" datetime="2024-10-02T13:50:18-07:00">October 2, 2024</time></a></span><span class="tags-links"><a href="https://lucybellwood.com/tag/audra-mcnamee/" rel="tag">audra mcnamee</a>, <a href="https://lucybellwood.com/tag/comics/" rel="tag">Comics</a>, <a href="https://lucybellwood.com/tag/libraries/" rel="tag">libraries</a>, <a href="https://lucybellwood.com/tag/library/" rel="tag">library</a>, <a href="https://lucybellwood.com/tag/minicomic/" rel="tag">minicomic</a>, <a href="https://lucybellwood.com/tag/portland/" rel="tag">portland</a>, <a href="https://lucybellwood.com/tag/public-library/" rel="tag">public library</a>, <a href="https://lucybellwood.com/tag/self-publishing-2/" rel="tag">self publishing</a>, <a href="https://lucybellwood.com/tag/shay-mirk/" rel="tag">shay mirk</a>, <a href="https://lucybellwood.com/tag/zine/" rel="tag">zine</a>, <a href="https://lucybellwood.com/tag/zines/" rel="tag">zines</a></span> </footer> </div> </article> <article id="post-8125" class="post-8125 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-blog category-brain-food tag-acronym tag-christopher-noxon tag-clear tag-life-stuff"> <div class="hentry-wrapper"> <header class="entry-header" > <div class="entry-header-wrapper"> <div class="entry-meta"><span class="cat-links"><a href="https://lucybellwood.com/category/blog/" rel="category tag">Blog</a>, <a href="https://lucybellwood.com/category/blog/brain-food/" rel="category tag">Brain Food</a></span></div><h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://lucybellwood.com/a-string-of-letters/" rel="bookmark">A String of Letters</a></h2> </div> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>My friend <a href="https://www.christophernoxonart.com/">Christopher</a> made himself an acronym to live by (<strong>PAASH</strong>: P.E., Art, Admin, Study, Help) and I liked the idea so much I had to make my own. The general idea, as far as he described it, was to capture the things he does in any given day or week that make him feel like a whole person. If something feels off, he can take a look at the acronym and see what’s missing. </p> <p>After a lot of messy note taking and backronymification I landed on <strong>CLEAR</strong>: Create, Learn, Embody, Act Up, Rest.</p> <p class="has-text-align-center has-white-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-29ba814a38ddf26b5f70f5607f378149" style="background-color:#008080;font-style:normal;font-weight:500"><strong>Create: </strong>make something with your hands, has to be tangible, no computer shit</p> <p class="has-text-align-center has-white-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-63303e8dc5c70c98bd419ead55ba3bbb" style="background-color:#008080;font-style:normal;font-weight:500"><strong>Learn:</strong> engage the conspiracy string brain, read a book with a pencil in hand, take a class, listen to a podcast</p> <p class="has-text-align-center has-white-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-68bf8b4ef65e55e23a9070b371d0f6d5" style="background-color:#008080;font-style:normal;font-weight:500"><strong>Embody: </strong>move in any capacity, whether concerted exercise or rolling around on the floor like a pill bug</p> <p class="has-text-align-center has-white-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-58f2a5d63b9ba32e1536e734f07221e3" style="background-color:#008080;font-style:normal;font-weight:500"><strong>Act Up:</strong> engage in some form of activism, ideally connected to community, that pushes you outside your comfort zone</p> <p class="has-text-align-center has-white-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-d7584c935ef6a39982e0573f8e49cba1" style="background-color:#008080;font-style:normal;font-weight:500"><strong>Rest: </strong>the hard one, zero input time, staring into space, lying on the ground, generally after lunch</p> <p>They’re not so different, really, but I think it does add something to have to come up with your own. I’d be very curious to see other people’s down the line. Maybe we all, deep down, want the same five things out of a day. (There’s a thought: should it be limited to five letters? That’s just how these two examples shook out, but I see no reason to limit the parameters.)</p> </div> <footer class="entry-footer"> <span class="posted-on"><a href="https://lucybellwood.com/a-string-of-letters/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2024-10-15T07:27:00-07:00">October 15, 2024</time><time class="updated" datetime="2024-10-02T13:50:34-07:00">October 2, 2024</time></a></span><span class="tags-links"><a href="https://lucybellwood.com/tag/acronym/" rel="tag">acronym</a>, <a href="https://lucybellwood.com/tag/christopher-noxon/" rel="tag">christopher noxon</a>, <a href="https://lucybellwood.com/tag/clear/" rel="tag">CLEAR</a>, <a href="https://lucybellwood.com/tag/life-stuff/" rel="tag">life stuff</a></span> </footer> </div> </article> <article id="post-8205" class="post-8205 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-delights category-ojai tag-coyote tag-nature tag-ojai-2 tag-unselfing"> <div class="hentry-wrapper"> <header class="entry-header" > <div class="entry-header-wrapper"> <div class="entry-meta"><span class="cat-links"><a href="https://lucybellwood.com/category/blog/delights/" rel="category tag">Delights</a>, <a href="https://lucybellwood.com/category/blog/ojai/" rel="category tag">Ojai</a></span></div><h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://lucybellwood.com/encounter/" rel="bookmark">Encounter</a></h2> </div> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>I don’t know how long she’s been there when I spot her.</p> <p>A pointed muzzle. Massive, soft ears swiveling in the dusk. Slender legs perched on the rock wall. She’s close to the orchard, but leaving the shelter of the trees. The comet of her dark-tipped tail follows her to the lawn.</p> <p>We’re close, maybe twenty feet from each other. The dogs don’t like it one bit, growling and barking in a defensive fury, but she saunters forward, unconcerned. I’m frozen, attuned, waiting for something. She holds steady until I stand and shatter her confidence against the edge of my movement.</p> <p>In seconds both the coyote, and the brief unselfing she brings, are gone.</p> </div> <footer class="entry-footer"> <span class="posted-on"><a href="https://lucybellwood.com/encounter/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2024-10-13T10:31:32-07:00">October 13, 2024</time><time class="updated" datetime="2024-10-08T10:39:27-07:00">October 8, 2024</time></a></span><span class="tags-links"><a href="https://lucybellwood.com/tag/coyote/" rel="tag">coyote</a>, <a href="https://lucybellwood.com/tag/nature/" rel="tag">nature</a>, <a href="https://lucybellwood.com/tag/ojai-2/" rel="tag">ojai</a>, <a href="https://lucybellwood.com/tag/unselfing/" rel="tag">unselfing</a></span> </footer> </div> </article> <article id="post-8203" class="post-8203 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-blog category-brain-food tag-blog tag-blogging tag-blogs tag-community tag-feed-readers tag-friends tag-noodling tag-online-ecosystems tag-social-media"> <div class="hentry-wrapper"> <header class="entry-header" > <div class="entry-header-wrapper"> <div class="entry-meta"><span class="cat-links"><a href="https://lucybellwood.com/category/blog/" rel="category tag">Blog</a>, <a href="https://lucybellwood.com/category/blog/brain-food/" rel="category tag">Brain Food</a></span></div><h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://lucybellwood.com/noodling-in-the-dark/" rel="bookmark">Noodling in the Dark</a></h2> </div> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>There’s something undeniably different about finding a community via blogs.</p> <p>Social media spoiled us for feeling like we were all in the same giant room—liking, replying, reblogging, DMing and so on—but when I go to quote a friend or draw attention to a project on my own site, I find myself applying a higher standard of stewardship. How do I want to introduce other people to this person? What work of theirs really sings to me? I always try to do my due diligence with tags and links and properly formatted images, because we’re making our own internet out here and we owe it to each other to get it right.</p> <p>I have a richer picture of the group of people in my feed reader than I did of the people I regularly interacted with on social media platforms like Instagram. There are also fewer people to keep up with overall. I’m more likely to unfollow feeds whose updates I don’t leap at the chance to consume. I’m more aware of nuanced opinions, annual projects, and the inner thoughts of relative strangers.</p> <p>Because blogs are much <em>quieter</em> than social media, there’s also the ability to switch off that awareness that Someone Is Always Watching. I’m far more likely to write or make things just to please myself on my site. I’m also always genuinely delighted and startled when someone tells me they’ve read a post. </p> <p>I don’t want to lose that feeling of noodling around in the dark.</p> </div> <footer class="entry-footer"> <span class="posted-on"><a href="https://lucybellwood.com/noodling-in-the-dark/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2024-10-11T07:02:00-07:00">October 11, 2024</time><time class="updated" datetime="2024-10-07T16:05:28-07:00">October 7, 2024</time></a></span><span class="tags-links"><a href="https://lucybellwood.com/tag/blog/" rel="tag">blog</a>, <a href="https://lucybellwood.com/tag/blogging/" rel="tag">blogging</a>, <a href="https://lucybellwood.com/tag/blogs/" rel="tag">blogs</a>, <a href="https://lucybellwood.com/tag/community/" rel="tag">community</a>, <a href="https://lucybellwood.com/tag/feed-readers/" rel="tag">feed readers</a>, <a href="https://lucybellwood.com/tag/friends/" rel="tag">friends</a>, <a href="https://lucybellwood.com/tag/noodling/" rel="tag">noodling</a>, <a href="https://lucybellwood.com/tag/online-ecosystems/" rel="tag">online ecosystems</a>, <a href="https://lucybellwood.com/tag/social-media/" rel="tag">social media</a></span> </footer> </div> </article> <article id="post-8185" class="post-8185 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-panels-talks tag-audio tag-barts-books tag-book-tour tag-events tag-feeding-ghosts tag-interview tag-local-events tag-ojai-2 tag-ojai-events tag-recording tag-tessa-hulls"> <div class="hentry-wrapper"> <header class="entry-header" > <div class="entry-header-wrapper"> <div class="entry-meta"><span class="cat-links"><a href="https://lucybellwood.com/category/education/panels-talks/" rel="category tag">Panels & Talks</a></span></div><h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://lucybellwood.com/the-long-awaited-tessa-hulls-interview/" rel="bookmark">The Long-Awaited Tessa Hulls Interview</a></h2> </div> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>Just in time for <a href="https://lucybellwood.com/back-at-barts/">my next event at Bart’s Books</a>, I’ve finally finished cutting together the audio of my previous conversation there with creative powerhouse <a href="http://tessahulls.com/">Tessa Hulls</a>! This talk was recorded on her whirlwind book tour for <em>Feeding Ghosts</em>, a stunning matrilineal graphic memoir that rocked me to my core and has remained on my mind all year.</p> <figure class="wp-block-audio"><audio controls src="https://lucybellwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Tessa-Barts-Event.mp3"></audio></figure> <p>Tune in to hear us talk about sustaining ourselves during interminable creative projects, insights from Tessa’s seven-month isolated wilderness residency, and some Patented Bellwood Questions about money in publishing under a springtime sunset.</p> <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img decoding="async" width="768" height="1024" src="https://lucybellwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/73276130189__E17CA643-6B87-4BEB-9350-454C9A6EFF32-768x1024.jpeg" alt="A bright collection of pink and green folding chairs set up in the courtyard of an open air bookstore." class="wp-image-8187" srcset="https://lucybellwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/73276130189__E17CA643-6B87-4BEB-9350-454C9A6EFF32-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https://lucybellwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/73276130189__E17CA643-6B87-4BEB-9350-454C9A6EFF32-225x300.jpeg 225w, https://lucybellwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/73276130189__E17CA643-6B87-4BEB-9350-454C9A6EFF32-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https://lucybellwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/73276130189__E17CA643-6B87-4BEB-9350-454C9A6EFF32-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https://lucybellwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/73276130189__E17CA643-6B87-4BEB-9350-454C9A6EFF32-scaled.jpeg 1920w" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px"></figure> <p>Tessa also read us an excerpt from the book, which I’ve included in the audio because the words absolutely hold up on their own (although obviously the ideal way to experience the book is to <a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/feeding-ghosts-a-memoir-tessa-hulls/19994803?ean=9780374601652">get your hands on a copy</a>).</p> <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="799" height="1024" src="https://lucybellwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Feedings-Ghosts-Hulls-Prologue-799x1024.jpg" alt="A sample page from the graphic novel Feeding Ghosts." class="wp-image-8188" srcset="https://lucybellwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Feedings-Ghosts-Hulls-Prologue-799x1024.jpg 799w, https://lucybellwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Feedings-Ghosts-Hulls-Prologue-234x300.jpg 234w, https://lucybellwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Feedings-Ghosts-Hulls-Prologue-768x985.jpg 768w, https://lucybellwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Feedings-Ghosts-Hulls-Prologue-1198x1536.jpg 1198w, https://lucybellwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Feedings-Ghosts-Hulls-Prologue-1597x2048.jpg 1597w, https://lucybellwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Feedings-Ghosts-Hulls-Prologue-scaled.jpg 1997w" sizes="(max-width: 799px) 100vw, 799px"></figure> <p>Longtime readers might remember <a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/adventure-with-22739626">this chat we recorded back in 2018</a>. Many themes in this more recent conversation are the same, but the intervening years have changed us both in some pretty significant ways. I hope we get to cross paths again and answer all these questions anew another six years down the line.</p> <p>I have so much admiration for Tessa as a fellow uncategorizeable creative force. She continues to remind me what it can look like to blend all the disparate passions of our lives into something rich and strange. I hope that affection and enthusiasm come through in this conversation, and that you’re able to read her book soon.</p> </div> <footer class="entry-footer"> <span class="posted-on"><a href="https://lucybellwood.com/the-long-awaited-tessa-hulls-interview/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2024-10-08T11:24:23-07:00">October 8, 2024</time><time class="updated" datetime="2024-10-08T11:24:24-07:00">October 8, 2024</time></a></span><span class="tags-links"><a href="https://lucybellwood.com/tag/audio/" rel="tag">audio</a>, <a href="https://lucybellwood.com/tag/barts-books/" rel="tag">bart's books</a>, <a href="https://lucybellwood.com/tag/book-tour/" rel="tag">book tour</a>, <a href="https://lucybellwood.com/tag/events/" rel="tag">events</a>, <a href="https://lucybellwood.com/tag/feeding-ghosts/" rel="tag">feeding ghosts</a>, <a href="https://lucybellwood.com/tag/interview/" rel="tag">interview</a>, <a href="https://lucybellwood.com/tag/local-events/" rel="tag">local events</a>, <a href="https://lucybellwood.com/tag/ojai-2/" rel="tag">ojai</a>, <a href="https://lucybellwood.com/tag/ojai-events/" rel="tag">ojai events</a>, <a href="https://lucybellwood.com/tag/recording/" rel="tag">recording</a>, <a href="https://lucybellwood.com/tag/tessa-hulls/" rel="tag">tessa hulls</a></span> </footer> </div> </article> <article id="post-8194" class="post-8194 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-brain-food category-ojai category-watching tag-christopher-noxon tag-friends tag-fun tag-local-events tag-maximalism tag-ojai-2 tag-painting tag-process tag-psychedelics tag-studio-artists-tour tag-world-building"> <div class="hentry-wrapper"> <header class="entry-header" > <div class="entry-header-wrapper"> <div class="entry-meta"><span class="cat-links"><a href="https://lucybellwood.com/category/blog/brain-food/" rel="category tag">Brain Food</a>, <a href="https://lucybellwood.com/category/blog/ojai/" rel="category tag">Ojai</a>, <a href="https://lucybellwood.com/category/blog/watching/" rel="category tag">Watching</a></span></div><h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://lucybellwood.com/what-im-having-is-fun/" rel="bookmark">“What I’m having is fun.”</a></h2> </div> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="819" height="1024" src="https://lucybellwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Utom-Valley-819x1024.jpg" alt="A vibrant painting by Christopher Noxon showing a riot of pink and green undulating fields, buildings, mountains, and rivers." class="wp-image-8196" srcset="https://lucybellwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Utom-Valley-819x1024.jpg 819w, https://lucybellwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Utom-Valley-240x300.jpg 240w, https://lucybellwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Utom-Valley-768x960.jpg 768w, https://lucybellwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Utom-Valley-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https://lucybellwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Utom-Valley.jpg 1440w" sizes="(max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px"></figure> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"> <p>After looking over the Big Weirdies at a recent show, a friend said with a wink-wink laugh, “I’ll have what he’s having.”</p> <p>He’s welcome to it! What I’m having is fun.</p> </blockquote> <p>I really like <a href="https://www.rejuvenile.com/cnsite/newsitem/maximalism_and_psychedelics">this post from my pal Christopher</a> about his approach to “super-saturation and world-building” in his paintings without the use of psychedelics (despite what many people seem to think upon viewing them). </p> <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="820" height="1024" src="https://lucybellwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Awhay-4-820x1024.jpg" alt="A vibrant painting by Christopher Noxon showing a riot of pink and green undulating and radiating fields, buildings, mountains, cacti, and lakes." class="wp-image-8197" srcset="https://lucybellwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Awhay-4-820x1024.jpg 820w, https://lucybellwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Awhay-4-240x300.jpg 240w, https://lucybellwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Awhay-4-768x959.jpg 768w, https://lucybellwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Awhay-4-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https://lucybellwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Awhay-4.jpg 1440w" sizes="(max-width: 820px) 100vw, 820px"></figure> </div> <footer class="entry-footer"> <span class="posted-on"><a href="https://lucybellwood.com/what-im-having-is-fun/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2024-10-07T12:01:22-07:00">October 7, 2024</time><time class="updated" datetime="2024-10-07T12:02:00-07:00">October 7, 2024</time></a></span><span class="tags-links"><a href="https://lucybellwood.com/tag/christopher-noxon/" rel="tag">christopher noxon</a>, <a href="https://lucybellwood.com/tag/friends/" rel="tag">friends</a>, <a href="https://lucybellwood.com/tag/fun/" rel="tag">fun</a>, <a href="https://lucybellwood.com/tag/local-events/" rel="tag">local events</a>, <a href="https://lucybellwood.com/tag/maximalism/" rel="tag">maximalism</a>, <a href="https://lucybellwood.com/tag/ojai-2/" rel="tag">ojai</a>, <a href="https://lucybellwood.com/tag/painting/" rel="tag">painting</a>, <a href="https://lucybellwood.com/tag/process/" rel="tag">process</a>, <a href="https://lucybellwood.com/tag/psychedelics/" rel="tag">psychedelics</a>, <a href="https://lucybellwood.com/tag/studio-artists-tour/" rel="tag">studio artists tour</a>, <a href="https://lucybellwood.com/tag/world-building/" rel="tag">world-building</a></span> </footer> </div> </article> <article id="post-8171" class="post-8171 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-events category-news tag-barts-books tag-carson-ellis tag-dear-sophie-love-sophie tag-events tag-local-event tag-newsletters tag-ojai-2 tag-one-week-in-january tag-painting tag-portland tag-publishing tag-sophie-lucido-johnson"> <div class="hentry-wrapper"> <header class="entry-header" > <div class="entry-header-wrapper"> <div class="entry-meta"><span class="cat-links"><a href="https://lucybellwood.com/category/news/events/" rel="category tag">Events</a>, <a href="https://lucybellwood.com/category/news/" rel="category tag">News</a></span></div><h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://lucybellwood.com/back-at-barts/" rel="bookmark">Back at Bart’s</a></h2> </div> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>I’m joining the inimitable <a href="https://www.carsonellis.com/">Carson Ellis</a> for a conversation at Bart’s Books this month! Come help celebrate the release of her new book, <em>One Week in January</em>, on October 12th in the Bart’s courtyard from 6-7pm. We’ll be chatting about creative booms in funky towns, spending time with our younger selves, and finding community in rural spaces. Event details <a href="https://bartsbooksojai.com/courtyardevents/2efw372lr6pd6w0gozcsrn62x6aun4">here</a>.</p> <div class="wp-block-image"> <figure class="aligncenter size-large"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="2500" height="834" src="https://lucybellwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/image.png" alt="Header for Carson Ellis's event at Bart's Books." class="wp-image-8178" srcset="https://lucybellwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/image.png 2500w, https://lucybellwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/image-300x100.png 300w, https://lucybellwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/image-1024x342.png 1024w, https://lucybellwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/image-768x256.png 768w, https://lucybellwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/image-1536x512.png 1536w, https://lucybellwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/image-2048x683.png 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px"></figure></div> <p>Here’s a bit more about the book:</p> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"> <p>In January 2001, […] 25-year-old Ellis moved into a warehouse in the Central Eastside with a group of fellow artists. For the first week she lived there, Ellis kept a detailed diary recording only the minutiae of each day, mostly as a brain exercise to stave off what she perceived as memory loss. A couple years ago, having recently rediscovered the volume in a crate of letters and keep-sakes, she set to illustrate the two-decade-old journal with rich gouache paintings, evocatively capturing a specific cultural moment of the early 2000s.</p> <p>Offering here a snapshot of a bygone era and a meticulous re-creation of quotidian frustrations and small, meaningful moments, <em>One Week in January</em> is a meditation on what it means both to start your journey as an artist and to look back at that beginning many years later.</p> </blockquote> <p>You can also see all the original paintings from the book at <a href="https://www.nationale.us/carson-ellis-one-week-in-january-2024">Nationale</a> in Portland through October 19th!</p> <div class="wp-block-image"> <figure class="aligncenter size-large"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1500" height="1000" src="https://lucybellwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/image.jpeg" alt="" class="wp-image-8176" srcset="https://lucybellwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/image.jpeg 1500w, https://lucybellwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/image-300x200.jpeg 300w, https://lucybellwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/image-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https://lucybellwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/image-768x512.jpeg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px"></figure></div> <p>There are tons of things I love about this project, but I’m specifically delighted by it as a time capsule of the Portland that was already dissolving when I arrived there as a college student in late 2009. I <em>know</em> the buildings and markets Carson mentions in her diary! I’ve visited friends’ painting studios in those same warehouses! I’ve shopped at those corner stores! But the version of the city I found was slightly newer, the grime a bit less visible. The city I visit now—the one she still lives outside of—is newer still.</p> <p>And then, of course, there’s the collapsing tunnel that flings me back further in my own life. A year after writing this diary, Carson would illustrate the cover of <em>Castaways and Cutouts</em>—the first album from The Decemberists, fronted by her now-husband (and frequent diary apparition) Colin Meloy. By the time I started high school in 2003 I was eagerly bringing their songs to play at Morning Assembly. As a tall ship sailor in the late 2000s, it was basically mandatory that one listen to a band with so many raucous, anachronistic, shanty-like tunes under their belt—not to mention the nautical art Carson made for each release. The thought of sitting down as something like peers to discuss Carson’s work from that era is surreal in the extreme.</p> <p>Now that I think of it, one of my favorite reads from this year, <em><a href="https://www.sophielucidojohnson.com/dear-sophie-love-sophie">Dear Sophie, Love Sophie</a></em>, likewise begins with the recovery of a painfully earnest diary and spins it into something compassionate and affirming in the present day.</p> <div class="wp-block-image"> <figure class="aligncenter size-large"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="525" height="700" src="https://lucybellwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/image-1.jpeg" alt="" class="wp-image-8177" srcset="https://lucybellwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/image-1.jpeg 525w, https://lucybellwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/image-1-225x300.jpeg 225w" sizes="(max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px"></figure></div> <p>It’s more graphic novel than pairing of painting and text, but equally heartfelt and charming. (I’m just a big fan of Sophie Lucido Johnson, generally speaking. Her <a href="https://goodenoughjob.substack.com/">newsletter</a> is great.)</p> <p>Oh, Carson has a newsletter, too! It’s called <a href="https://www.carsonellis.com/newsletter">Slowpoke</a>.</p> <p>Okay, I think that’s it for promotion. See you at Bart’s!</p> </div> <footer class="entry-footer"> <span class="posted-on"><a href="https://lucybellwood.com/back-at-barts/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2024-10-02T06:14:00-07:00">October 2, 2024</time><time class="updated" datetime="2024-10-02T10:54:21-07:00">October 2, 2024</time></a></span><span class="tags-links"><a href="https://lucybellwood.com/tag/barts-books/" rel="tag">bart's books</a>, <a href="https://lucybellwood.com/tag/carson-ellis/" rel="tag">carson ellis</a>, <a href="https://lucybellwood.com/tag/dear-sophie-love-sophie/" rel="tag">dear sophie love sophie</a>, <a href="https://lucybellwood.com/tag/events/" rel="tag">events</a>, <a href="https://lucybellwood.com/tag/local-event/" rel="tag">local event</a>, <a href="https://lucybellwood.com/tag/newsletters/" rel="tag">newsletters</a>, <a href="https://lucybellwood.com/tag/ojai-2/" rel="tag">ojai</a>, <a href="https://lucybellwood.com/tag/one-week-in-january/" rel="tag">one week in january</a>, <a href="https://lucybellwood.com/tag/painting/" rel="tag">painting</a>, <a href="https://lucybellwood.com/tag/portland/" rel="tag">portland</a>, <a href="https://lucybellwood.com/tag/publishing/" rel="tag">publishing</a>, <a href="https://lucybellwood.com/tag/sophie-lucido-johnson/" rel="tag">sophie lucido-johnson</a></span> </footer> </div> </article> <article id="post-8148" class="post-8148 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-blog tag-aaron-johnson tag-being-human tag-bipoc tag-cut-project tag-death tag-film tag-film-screening tag-grief tag-platonic-touch tag-survival tag-tenderness tag-touch"> <div class="hentry-wrapper"> <header class="entry-header" > <div class="entry-header-wrapper"> <div class="entry-meta"><span class="cat-links"><a href="https://lucybellwood.com/category/blog/" rel="category tag">Blog</a></span></div><h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://lucybellwood.com/tender-dangerous/" rel="bookmark">Tender/Dangerous</a></h2> </div> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>I wish I could be in the Pacific Northwest to attend one of these screenings for <em><a href="https://www.cutproject.org/" data-type="link" data-id="https://www.cutproject.org/">Dark and Tender</a></em>, a film exploring the work of Aaron Johnson and the Chronically UnderTouched (CUT) Project. </p> <p>From their website:</p> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"> <p>The Chronically UnderTouched (CUT) Project is a movement supporting People of the Global Majority — people of color — to recover healthy, nourishing, platonic touch in a culture that, in the United States, denies it at every turn. </p> </blockquote> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"> <p>Born out of the development and tracking of the Chronically UnderTouched trauma story, the CUT Project develops accessible practices — deep listening, song, access to nature — as antidotes to the Black Brute archetype. […] Tender, thoughtful touch and holding, to the Black male body, is so dangerous to white supremacy that they use all matters of violence to erase this practice.</p> </blockquote> <p>I’m watching my dad decline and trying to stay present for the version of him that remains and always, <em>always</em> thinking about grief in this country. How we drown it, gloss over it. We’re starved of the emotional technology that helps us process any of this. Our rituals fall so short. Aaron’s work illuminates the ways this deprivation disproportionately impacts people of color, making it all the more timely. </p> <p>These days my ears perk up when someone speaks with the candor that comes from living through immeasurable loss. I find myself gravitating to places I never would’ve called home before: grief circles, mortality workshops, books and books and books about mourning, death, and ceremony.</p> <p>Touch is a cornerstone of survival in this season. The older I get, the more deeply I know it. I know it because I want it. I want lingering hugs that last a full breath. I want leonine forehead to forehead greetings. I want a hand on the shoulder, a back scratch, the reassuring weight of leaning into someone side by side. 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