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To celebrate National Poetry Month this year, April 2021, several San Antonio poets were matched with shops at the Pearl and commissioned to write a short poem to be displayed […]

A new puppet! Last week my fabric artist friend Lucia gifted me with a pile of batik and silk remnants — all beautiful! Tepan’s hat, tunic, and trousers are all […]

A new puppet! Melissodes lives in the same pocket universe as Osmia Elder (the elder white-haired puppet). He is a mystic and mathematician with a special interest in the fractal […]

This is a puppet I made for Dia de Muertos last fall. Luna carries her own death with her, a sweet little calaca (skeleton) puppet. Puppet for a puppet!

Just finished building this puppet a few days ago. Her shoes are fashioned from little pieces of century-old lace tatting made by my grandmother. And an old pair of jeans […]

This puppet will soon enter into an enchanted friendship with Osmia Elder. Mason lives on the Chihuahuan desert and is fascinated by native bees. She also performs in other puppet […]

A new puppet. Osmia Elder is a wise woman who lives in a pocket universe that connects to our own, a realm known as The Stitchers.

I’ve enjoyed encountering various wasps this summer, too. The (obsidian black and sapphire blue with orange wings) tarantula hawk wasp is a large and beautiful being, while also a bit […]

This darling Green Metallic Sweat bee, pollen-dusted and wings whirring to a blur, was another visitor to the blooming cenizo (Texas sage) bush.

This summer, I’ve enjoyed tramping through neighborhood greenbelts, drainage ditches and empty lots — where ever wildflowers sprout up–to look for native bees. This longhorn bee with the hairy, pollen-collecting […]