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Distill Life

Saudades: Passion Pit

Beringer Vineyards

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Paradise is the center of a peach. We can never get there. Because, of course, once you've cut it open... but oh, the journey over the coals rubbed with cinnamon oil, waiting in the translucent afternoon sun, for the mouth to arrive...

Beringer Vineyards Back LabelBeringer Vineyards Back Label
Interview with alambic-brandy maker Hubert Germain-Robin, Appellation Magazine, January/February 1998

Collection of poems in collaboration with Chef Shannon Hughes, commissioned by
Stags' Leap Winery
Copywriting for Beringer's back labels
with Marketing Director Bill Piersol

Because Culture
Is Always Urgent

Stags' Leap Winery

Flora's Story

How many nights passed while they repaired their clumsy ignorance, discovering the sweet insouciance of the mandarin orange when it's out on its first date with chocolate...

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Mostly I remember
the supreme
beauty
of the place,
which always registers
in me like a heartbeat

A poetic fable for Alice Waters, commissioned on the event of the 30th anniversary of Chez Panisse
Copywriting for redesigned website, including interviewing and editing statements to go with portraits by photographer Olaf Beckmann

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Love Letters from the Leap
website feature: initial poem for the archive commissioned by Stags' Leap Winery

The Adoration of Nature:
Picnicking as Art form

Collaborative Painting: The work of Ricia Araiza & Michael Leventhal

Pangaea

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These two artists are able to give a new twist to the use of non-rational techniques in art. Try holding onto a fixed and rational idea when someone is leaning over your shoulder and painting it out with such assurance...

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Article for the Stags' Leap Winery Newsletter
Ongoing Writing, Design & Production of Biannual publication
Poetic Biography commissioned by the artists after a series of interviews and painting sessions, 2003

Feature article profiling Shannon Hughes' restaurant, Pangaea, Appellation Magazine, May/June 1999
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