During the summer of 1998 I helped organize and was a guest artist in a two-week workshop that Gerry Williams taught with his younger friends John Hartom and Lisa Blackburn at the Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina.
I could feel my roots moving into the earth from the soles of my feet, my spine's sure spiral towards the sun, my skin's slow dissolve. And in my treetops this gentle wind kept whispering, "Everything is art when you are dressed for it."
