I wasn’t expecting these materials when I first looked at this piece by artists Gerlinde Gruber, Christine Strempel and Matthäus Jiszda, as seen on Fubiz. A few years ago, I received a piece of fan mail from a professor at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts about my Mother Tree Project saying that she’d love to see her exhibited in Northampton, MA. It was kind of a pipe dream, but we ended up making it happen because the publisher of my first three books is located there too, and they helped fund the trip (for me and Mother Tree). That professor, Melanie Mowinski, continues to knock my socks off with the amazing projects that she undertakes (you should see her visual diaries).Most recently, she’s curated Paper Dresses, a group exhibition that explores the […]