Influence & inspiration

The studio is solitary but never alone. Creation does not happen in a vacuum. I am constantly picking up threads. Here is a list of some books that have and continue to inspire me:

The Fourth Way, Pyotr Ouspenskii

Staying with the Trouble, Donna Haraway

The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

Notes of a Native Son, James Baldwin

The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, Ursula Le Guin

A Left-Handed Commencement Address, Ursula Le Guin

Pleasure Activism, Adrienne Marie Brown

Emergent Strategy, Adrienne Marie Brown

Uses of the Erotic, Audre Lorde

Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching, Ursula Le Guin

The Weight of our Living: On Hope, Fire Escapes, and Visible Desperation, Ocean Vuong

When God Was a Woman, Merlin Stone