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HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

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For my entire professional career, I have seen the steady demise of the practical application of hand-lettering. While I believe there is a certain loss here, it is nevertheless true and inevitable in this digital age, what with all of its beautiful fonts and ease of self-publication. However, while there lies a dark cloud in front of every silver lining, I choose to cast my eyes on the rainbow on the other side of the sky! In my three years since leaving the White House, I have experienced only too personally, the decline in the demand for calligraphy for social events.The blessing here is that it has allowed me to return to my calligraphy roots, and invest my efforts in creating calligraphy-based art purely for the means of expression. 

I have gathered the many quotes and poems that have appealed to me over the years and I am interpreting them on paper in ways that, hopefully, readers will find creative, expressive and as meaningful to them as they are to me. Most of my current work is inspired by words of the sea and of nature. As the Arts and Crafts movement of the early 20th century was a response to the industrialization of the developing world, I find it important to once again check our souls and remember who we are and where we are headed in the midst of our technology-driven society.

With the exponential rate of change we are currently experiencing, it is very easy for us to forget almost entirely our relationship with the natural world in which we live.  I embrace the words of naturalists and thinkers more erudite than myself by putting their words to paper as a reminder of what is important. Please check back from time to time, as I will periodically post new work and writings that I find significant and worthy of contemplation!

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