A needle-felted frog face wearing an orange scarf and a grey sweater giving the peace sign.

To change culture - create MORE culture

Culture is simply someone’s distinctive choice leap-frogging through time.

New art, ideas, even silliness ripples until the pond shimmers in a new light.
Take a stand on a Lily Pad of your own intention, leap, make ripples, create culture. #frog #needlefelt

Fish for alliance, but first you should know
“Is it de-bait or rage-bait?” before you throw.

A needle felted patch of a rainbow trout wearing a blue sweater and caught on a fishing hook. The background is multiple layers or colored felt.

Debate: a lake where ideas swim,
A place where all surface a win.
Each throw threads with patient cast
Knit together warmth that lasts.

Rage-bait: a troll cast for a fight,
Catching only shadows & spite.
Snagging threads that kept us warm,
Holes reside where stagnation forms.

A needle felted elephant on an orange wool patch. It is attached to a gift tag against a ripped Jean texture background.

Why are we more timid to talk of elephants
than to be pierced by their ivory spear?
We tiptoed around imagined exiles
While being trampled under literal fear.
…
Talk of the elephants, talk of the pain
We have a world to lose, but a whole love to gain.

#Needlefelt #VisibleMending #elephantintheroom

A photo of a linocut roaring “mama bear” face, a printed patch, and a patched brown shirt with the “mama bear” artwork.

Moms demand action
Mothers demand care
Mommy sprints, shoes in hand,
Racing heart suffocating air

Mama bear screams
Ma writes a letter
Mum is the word
On when it will get better

Mimi reads “Be Kind”
While Mee Maw posts a plea
Mommy mommy mommy…
Who will protect me?

#poetry #visiblemending

The threat won’t leave.
The axe won’t tire.
The forest burns down.

We put the wrong feet to the fire

Safety’s not silence.
Protection’s not gauze.

Stop clipping wings.
clip the claws!

#poetry #linocut

Again and again we ask the fragile to bend
rather than burden the ones who impend.
Into the shadows you shrink the child
While the shadow’s arsenal grows more wild.

Whisper soft: be small, be still,
Cry quieter! It’s “just” a drill!

Until It’s not.

A linocut and its print of a classic school house surrounded by barbwire fence. Beyond the fence is flowers and other greenery.

Ought we scold the sapling: “grow thicker bark!”
As the axe is actively hewing its mark?

Why, when our children are hunted here,
Do we cage their laughter and hand them fear?

Bolt the doors! Draw curtains tight!
Turn the daylight into night.
…

(Continued in thread)

Four needle felted patches - a pelican on a pink backdrop, a whale on a light blue backdrop, a crab on an orange backdrop, a seal on a yellow backdrop, and a starfish on a blue backdrop.

Creative experiences + experiencing creation. If everyone had more of both, how much would the world change?

#needlefelt #nationalparks #nature #starfish #ocean #visiblemending

A linocut stamp of a pile of books with an open book at the top and a bird flying out. The print of the stamps is seen. Both surrounded by colorful real books.

A blackbird gathers twig and stem,
to nest her littles from mayhem
But I, being human, must weave instead
with living love and worlds I’ve read.
…
Let our nests be rich with views,
Braided ideas in many hues.
Let them read, let them decide
Unfettered love on which to glide.
#linocut #books #parent

A carver linocut stamp and it’s stamped counterpart on a paper bag. The linocut art is of a torch with the fire made from the embrace of a mother and daughter.

I carried you for 9 months,
now I carry a pit in my stomach 
as I carry the weight of the world that treats us both as dispensable.
…
As I carry you in my arms, I carry conviction. I can’t carry a tune, but I’ll still sing to you so that someday when you carry this torch it will be a bit lighter.

A photo of a linocut roaring “mama bear” face, a printed patch, and a patched brown shirt with the “mama bear” artwork.

Moms demand action
Mothers demand care
Mommy sprints, shoes in hand,
Racing heart suffocating air

Mama bear screams
Ma writes a letter
Mum is the word
On when it will get better

Mimi reads “Be Kind”
While Mee Maw posts a plea
Mommy mommy mommy…
Who will protect me?

#poetry #visiblemending

make art! if it's the end of the world, you might as well make art! if it's not the end of the world, then the future will be better because people made art right now!

A photo of multiple carved stamps of various animals howling. Two cards on top say “keep nature wild” with a yelling rabbit patch, and “speak up for quiet places” with a yelling goose patch.

Speak up for quiet places. Protect, preserve, and persevere for our parks.

#mnartist #nationalparks #protectwildlife

A linocut print of a typewriter with various plants and flowers where paper normal goes. The artwork is printed in black ink on a ripped brown paper bag and hanging by a clothespin against a wood background.

If history only spilled 9 words of ink for you, what would you hope they would say?

#WritingPrompt #MNartist #History #Linocut #Ink

A photo of a hand carved stamp of 3 geese flying surrounded by flowers motifs. The print of the stamp is seen on green cloth. The artwork is on a woven background and surrounded by 3 of the carving tools.

As long as the geese return, we know it’ll be ok.

#Lincout #Stamp #Patch #VisibleMending #Upcycle #MNArtist #Geese

A linocut stamp of an empty armchair and it’s mirrored ink. The art is surrounded by the carving tools.

It’s time to get up.
It’s time to get going.
You long for real change,
but the sand keeps on flowing.

You can theorize progress,
quantify pain,
but the hourglass whispers—
inaction’s a chain.

You data-analyze
And armchair-philosophize,
but…

(Full poem on blog)
#poem #linocut #visiblemending

A linocut stamp of an empty armchair and it’s mirrored ink. The art is surrounded by the carving tools.

It’s time to get up.
It’s time to get going.
You long for real change,
but the sand keeps on flowing.

You can theorize progress,
quantify pain,
but the hourglass whispers—
inaction’s a chain.

You data-analyze
And armchair-philosophize,
but…

(Full poem on blog)
#poem #linocut #visiblemending

A photo of multiple carved stamps of various animals howling. Two cards on top say “keep nature wild” with a yelling rabbit patch, and “speak up for quiet places” with a yelling goose patch.

Speak up for quiet places. Protect, preserve, and persevere for our parks.

#mnartist #nationalparks #protectwildlife

A linocut print of a typewriter with various plants and flowers where paper normal goes. The artwork is printed in black ink on a ripped brown paper bag and hanging by a clothespin against a wood background.

If history only spilled 9 words of ink for you, what would you hope they would say?

#WritingPrompt #MNartist #History #Linocut #Ink

A fox or wolf made from scrap fabric (various colors including white, purple, and black) on a white wooden backdrop. The art piece is on a snow and brick background.

And so she adapted again. #MNArtist #UpcycleArt

Three round framed art pieces made from scrap cloth. The top is a colorful highland cow, middle is a goose, and the bottom is a raccoon.

Be scrappy. “We may not have it all together, but together we have it all.” A little color from your scrap there and a little texture from my scrap here, together we can make a vibrant whole. Be a trash panda and make an impact with what you can piece together. What scrap are you starting with?

Linocut print of two hands with thumbs and pointer fingers creating a frame around a Scandinavian style flower

Focus on what you can grow. What are you focusing on now to make a difference?