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DESIGN PORTFOLIO: Copywriting & Commissioned Poetry
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Distill Life
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Saudades: Passion Pit
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Heart Throb
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The soil
is a deep
chocolate color
when irrigated
and gray-green
at rest...
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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...
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The canvases
are beautifully
engineered machines,
which generate
a psychic event upon viewing...
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Interview with alambic-brandy maker Hubert Germain-Robin, Appellation Magazine, January/February 1998
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Collection of poems in collaboration with Chef Shannon Hughes, commissioned by
Stags' Leap Winery
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Because Culture
Is Always Urgent
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Cafe
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Flora's Story
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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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You will know
the names
of their children
and their gods and their
half-spoken
prayers...
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Mostly I remember the supreme
beauty of the place,
which always registers
in me like a heartbeat
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A poetic fable for Alice Waters, commissioned on the event of the 30th anniversary of Chez Panisse
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Harvest Moon Poetry Feast
Cafe Lucy, Napa, CA
Commissioned by Lucy Gore
21 September 2002
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The Adoration of Nature: Picnicking as Artform
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Collaborative Painting: The work of Ricia Araiza & Michael Leventhal
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Pangaea
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Picnickers
share a metabolism
of rebellion,
the joy of being
liberated from the work-a-day
world.
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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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Any further
west, and the
weather would be
reported in knots
and sea swells
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Article for the Stags' Leap Winery Newsletter
Ongoing Writing, Design & Production of Biannual publication
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Poetic Biography commissioned by the artists after a series of interviews and painting sessions, 2003
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Feature article profiling Shannon Hughes' restaurant, Pangaea, Appellation Magazine, May/June 1999
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