Trump Regime Comes for Preschoolers

The Seattle Office of Head Start (a federally-funded preschool program for poor kids which has been in operation since the 1960's) has just been closed and all employees there have been placed on leave and notified that they will be fired.  Trump's Department of Health & Human Services has also closed regional offices in Boston, New York, Chicago and San Francisco.  HHS head Robert F. Kennedy explained "[w]e are realigning the organization with its core mission..."   The core mission, I guess, being deprive poor kids of effective assistance.  Job well done, HHS!!

 

A Person Could Get Discouraged.

Cut & paste paper collage (magazine & newspaper scraps, acrylic paint)

8" x 11.5" (2025)

 

I thought we'd have more time.

Cut & paste paper collage, 2025, 10.5 x 10.5

 

So, Yeah, It's Going Well, Don't You Think?

 

Statesmanship At Its Finest

 So, I hear Trump and Musk met with Zelensky in the Oval Office yesterday to discuss the Ukraine situation...

...and there was a lot of yelling.

Putin was probably on speakerphone, but I'm not positive about that.

Two Pieces of Paper

 I normally don't make New Year's resolutions, but I was feeling the need for something focused.  So, this January I am making a daily practice sketchbook with strict rules:  at least one page each day, collage or paper-cutting, using no more than two pieces of paper for each image.  A little spray paint for ambience is acceptable.  The sketchbook is a letter-sized, stab-bound brown paper journal I found laying around my studio.  The work is fun, quick and dirty (off-centered pieces, glue marks, some rips and tears...) and I'm enjoying it.  10 out of 10, would definitely recommend.

Here's some pages from the first half of the sketchbook:

Copper No. 2

 Still experimenting with some metallic effects.  Here is a book-like (blook?) accordion structure created by painting and hand-cutting a Sundance Catalog folding mailer.  The six panels were hand-cut in various decorative shapes, and then spray-painted and rubbed with copper pigmented wax to give a metallic copper effect.  Closure is a simple thread tie.  This is headed out to Kalamazoo, MI, to join the 2025 Illustrated Accordion exhibit at Kalamazoo Book Arts Center.  It's fun, check it out!

"Copper No. 2" (2025) 6x9"

Lynn Skordal