This week I’m writing letters to my two US senators telling them to fully fund the United States Postal Service, because the USPS delivers life-saving medications and food! AND it enables voting by mail in primary states. If Congress and the White House don’t act now, The USPS could be bankrupt in three months.
Please join with me in supporting postal workers by sending a letter to your Senators asking them to fully fund the USPS!
Red paper courtesy of Drew Luan Matott and the Peace Paper Project LLC.
Last weekend, I was privileged to attend the CCL Greater Pacific Northwest Regional Conference in Vancouver, Washington. I wanted to make something to highlight the event, and so I drew the comic below. Go here to learn more about Citizens’ Climate Lobby!
This cartoon is based on a recent Pasco (Washington) City Council decision. The council voted to deny Catholic Charities’ offer to buy land from the city and build a homeless-housing development. Read more here: https://tumbleweird.org/pasco-city-council-votes-down-apartment-for-homeless/
HANFORD MADE: Profound choices, complex problems, and lasting legacies of plutonium production during the Manhattan Project.
For several months, I’ve been working with the National Park Service on a video about the Manhattan Project National Historical Park. I made all of the cartoon drawings and animations for this film. Check it out if you’d like to learn about some Hanford History!
This has always been my favorite scene from “The Sound of Music,” and current events in our country have made me think about this movie a lot. Nuns and priests have already been arrested for protesting family separations, specifically the deaths of numerous children in ICE custody. We should all have the courage to act as they do, and to courageously sabotage our way out of the darkness.
This is a water-feature that I made for inclusion in Spectra Gallery’sLiving Water show, which opened on Thursday, March 7, 2019.
Statement:
There is a popular sledding hill in Richland behind Carmichael School. One day when I was there, I noticed a few pieces of brightly-colored plastic sticking up out of the snow. Many people would just leave their broken sleds on the hill, or shove them into an already-overflowing garbage can on-site. I guess I began retrieving them simply to clean up the hill. I brought the pieces home, thinking to make some kind of a sculpture from them. As time went on and the snow kept coming, I returned to the hill and collected more and more pieces. I was attracted to the bright, saturated colors and the way in which the sleds would snap into different-shaped pieces (the disc sleds especially crack into satisfying, crescent-shaped chunks).
All of the sled pieces in this sculpture exist as I found them. It was important to me to utilize the forms as they were, as it forced me to arrange them according to how they would best channel water. So, I didn’t build the fountain with a real design in mind other than the base and center pipe (for support). Of course, last-minute testing of the “finished” fountain necessitated some minor tweaks, mostly in the form of additional layered pieces to catch water that didn’t run as I thought it would.
Water is pumped from the base container up through the centre pipe, and exits through two spouts at the top. Try to follow the water from its separate exit points all the way back to the bottom. Do the two paths ever cross? If so, is it purposeful—by design? Or is it accidental—by gravity?
