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05/21/2026

Sailing into 40 like….

I’m 40 now ! To mark this milestone, I chartered a couple boats and brought friends + family to spend the day with me on Horn Island, 12 miles off the coast of MS, in the spirit of Walter Anderson; who used to row himself out and spend weeks at a time there by himself making art from the landscape.  The island is wild and beautiful and looks just straight out of a Walter Anderson painting. The trip was too short, but looking forward to returning to camp there sometime soon and the many other adventures in art, exploring ecosystems, and doing all these things with people I love ahead.

Its also been a season of cakes, birthday and otherwise, may cake season never end

1. Birthday vision collaboration with Walter Anderson map drawing

2..My throne on the boat 📸

3..The other boat 📸

4.Horn Island ! 📸

5. Expeditioning

6. Dune exploration

7. Finding making it to Gulf side of the island!

8. Palmetto friend

9. Beach drawing

10. Beached tree

11. Shade situation

12. Drawing of reclining on the beach

13. Deluxe shade situation

14. Driftwood find

15. More expeditioning

16. Stingray friend 📸

17. Horn island rain check on my porch 📸

18. Ocean Springs ice cream cake at 39 and 51 weeks, thank you

19. Not a birthday cake but wasn’t upset to be a part of this beautiful and delicious experience .treppendahl dinner party during my birthday season

20. Officially 40 !

Special thanks to for helping me vision this adventure, rolling with the weather shifts and my weather anxiety, and getting us all out (and back) from the island

05/05/2026

If you live in New Orleans, you know it’s Give Nola Day; a powerful moment to support local nonprofits.

I’d love for you to consider supporting (ASITW). It’s a true gem in our arts ecosystem, hosting 50+ artists and scholars each year and creating programs that connect people to nature while sparking creative responses to the challenges of our time.

ASITW has meant a lot to me over the years, and I’m proud to serve on the board. I’ve watched my kids grow in that forest, and I hope we can sustain this special place for generations to come.

Our goal is $10,000; can you chip in?

04/23/2026

New Orleans PSA: Don’t sleep on jasmine season

Stop and smell those blooms while we have them and treat yourself to a jasmine bath, these fragrant blossoms are such a gift and will be gone before you know it

04/16/2026

Very excited to be plugging into this awesome event, *Environmental Justice Earth Day Block Party + Community Cleanup*, happening on Saturday !

I’ll have a table where we will make ink from materials found in our local ecology, iron oak gall ink from Louisiana live oaks and paint from pulverized bricks !

But there is a full day of amazing-ness planned, take a look and RSVP if you can :

Hosted by Healthy Gulf , GreenFaith United States and Chief Cleanliness Officer with support from Sunrise Movement New Orleans and Greater New Orleans Interfaith Climate Coalition — we’re building a true equity ecology rooted in community, care, and environmental justice 🌿  🗓 Saturday, April 18, 2026
 ⏰ 8:00 AM – 2:00 PM (Block Party + Cleanup)
 📍 Digby Park | 6600 Virgilian St, New Orleans East
 🎉 FREE + Open to the community (snoballs & crawfish while they last!)  Let’s build a stronger, cleaner, more connected future—together

✨  — FULL DAY EXPERIENCE —  ☀️
8:00 AM — Coffee, fellowship & community gathering 🌱
9:00 AM — Community cleanup & beautification 🎶
10:30 AM – 1:30 PM — Block party celebration 
Speakers, workshops, youth recognition + awards  
🚌 2:00 PM — Bus tour to Plaquemines Parish 
🍽 3:30/4:00 PM — Panel discussion + Q&A + dinner
 🌆 7:00 PM — Return to New Orleans  —

COME HUNGRY 😋 —  🍽
FREE & delicious food from Queen Trini Lisa Island Soul Food Queen Trini Lisa
 🔥 FREE crawfish Castnet Seafood  
🍧 FREE snoballs Frostbite Snoballs & Treats
 ⚠️ Limited capacity, RSVP 🌻eloise bio link

02/21/2026

Photosynthesizing through Fat Tuesday 🌞💚

Another beautiful Carnival season, capped by a perfect-weather Mardi Gras.

In mid-2025, I stumbled on my Mardi Gras 2026 look: the emerald sea slug in “The Light Eaters” by Zoë Schlanger. So many ideas from this book are still resonating in my studio practice, but the sea slug was a charismatic standout. I knew I had to manifest it as a wearable vibe for the crescendo of Carnival.

Emerald sea slugs are among the rare creatures that can photosynthesize; a being that blurs the boundary between animal and plant, singular organism and wider ecosystem. I wanted to share this adaptation and Schlanger’s framing philosophy (with her permission) as part of the costume, so I created an informational throw to hand out to friends and strangers on Fat Tuesday.

I had so much fun making and wearing this costume, spreading the emerald sea slug gospel and seeing everyone out on one of the best days of the year.

Swipe to see my costume and throw, then the arc of the day: rolling out with the kids, sending them home with my mom by 11am, the streets, the river, and all the way back home to our kids + my parents.

And let me know if you missed me on Fat Tuesday but want a throw, beautifully printed by

02/05/2026

Sound on

It’s been just over a year since the closing event for my installation “Orphan Well Gamma Garden”, commissioned for

made this video shortly after the event but it has taken me about a year to feel ready to share it.

I’m deeply proud of this installation; though the final days were destabilizing and took a real emotional toll. The way the work was received ultimately confirmed what it was pointing to; clarifying its urgency and meeting resistance in the places it was meant to.

sound activation inside the work was a dream come true, and remains one of the highlights of the project for me. Thank you for leaning into this with me so happy to finally share this glimpse of her performance.

Grateful to everyone who helped make the closing event possible:
k.young and for standing by me when institutional support was rescinded;

my siblings my husband and for helping run the event;

the team for showing up;

for helping plan the event;

for this lovely documentation,

and everyone who came out in support and bought books.

02/04/2026

Its been a year since this closing event for my installation, Orphan Well Gamma Garden (2024), commissioned for

’s sound activation inside the work was a dream come true, and remains one of the highlights of this project for me. Grateful to finally share this glimpse of her performance.

Thank you to for this sweet video

01/21/2026

Will never forget the once-in-a-lifetime snowstorm of 2025, one year ago today, when 10 inches of snow fell on our subtropical city; something that hadn’t happened in New Orleans (zone 9b) since 1895.

None of us had the proper clothing, but it was a truly miraculous thing to experience with my family and neighbors. It felt especially poignant coming on the heels of the devastating New Year’s Eve terrorist attack that marked the start of 2025, and what became a deeply unsettled year.

I’m grateful for these beautiful memories. I particularly loved seeing the silhouettes of snow topping our jungly vegetation, the novelty of seeing familiar sites with a blanket of snow and then the icicles extending the palmetto fronds as the snow melted (slides 10, 11).

01/09/2026

Thrilled to be included in this exhibition !

Boundary Layers brings together artists exploring how life grows in the margins. In wetlands, waves, and lungs, thin boundary regions form a new regime where physical forces reorganize and behavior shifts. Surface tension holds and yields, cradling interdependent forms of life that require fluidity for emergence, exchange, and adaptation.

Presented by “Boundary Layers,” is an exhibition curated by Heather Bird Harris (). Join us for an opening reception, January 24th from 6 to pm.

Featuring:
Elizabeth M. Webb | .m.webb
Carlie Trosclair |
Zipporah Camille Thompson |
Renee Royale |
Sachi Rome |
Carley Rickles |
Erin Palovick |
Melissa McGill |
Mary Mattingly |
Michelle Laxalt |
Madeleine Kelly |
Alexa Kumiko Hatanaka |
Elisa Dore | .dore
Hannah Chalew | .hnnh.chlw
Kate Burke | .burke_

Image credit: “for the weavers and the household gods” by Erin Palovick

01/07/2026

Lovely weekend in Lafayette last month with .manon and my daughter Izzy + her son Sacha to show our kids’ our exhibition at the

-Our kids were way more enthralled with the kids activities at the Hilliard than our exhibition but they grudgingly obliged us with some photos, slide 1-5

-I also got to spend time with beautiful solo show that is also on view at the Hilliard, which is a must-see, slide 6-7

-than we headed down the road to Mare’s studio and family land. Thank you so much to and her family for hosting us for the studio visit and family art workshop (slide 8-9).

We all got to make sculptures inspired by crawfish chimneys from clay that she reclaims from found crawfish chimneys (!!!), slide 10.

Mare is an incredible artist and it was such an honor to get to spend time with her and learn more about her work, process and a life. And the kids loved it so much, especially getting to “Hansel and Gretel” on their own around the grounds, slide 11.

-than we ended our busy day with a relaxing dinner and slumber party at , slide 13. It was such a treat to get to spend time with her, see her studio and catch up. Thank you so much for your generosity and opening up your house to our krewe

Fragile Matters, featuring our artwork alongside Harriet Joor, curated by is up for just a few more weeks, catch it before it closes on January 31st

Slide 1, 9, 11, 12: 📸 .manon

01/03/2026

Last paddle of 2025 (/second paddle of 2025)

Its hard to make time to get out on the water but such a special treat to be able to explore our watery surroundings in its’ winter clothes

In early December, we checked out Honey Island Swamp, right behind the Indian restaurant off I-59 N (don’t forget to pick up delicious takeout on your way out); lots of interesting trees and roots and loads of houseboats (slide 9) in states of abandonment.

Special highlight was the tree rooted on a block of foam island, temporarily caught by another tree. (Slide 3)

Loads of inspiration for future artworks and ideas and I also sprinkled in some drawings, happy new year !

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