July '26: Creating with the body you have, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Stitching Your Daily Life and More

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I enjoyed some fun things in July. I went to a bunny cafe. And a picnic at a winery. And the Chihara Shiota exhibit at the Asian Art Museum. And a friend’s drag opera in a church. And I read a whole lot of books.

I offer a unique 5-session service of Creative Health Mapping. See what that looks like:

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And I wrote some things …

Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Building a Practice Around a Body You Know Is Running Out of Time

Adaptation as Creative Intelligence: What Artists Learn When Constraint Forces a New Direction

How to Work With What You Have Today: A Guide to Creative Capacity Mapping

Dear Artist returning to embodied practice

And recorded some podcast episodes:

Episode 10: Seven Ways Health Changes Your Creative Medium

Episode 11: What Your Materials Are Doing to Your Nervous System

Episode 12: What Your Hands Already Know; Creative Medium as an Embodied Form of Thinking

On Threadstack:

Stitching Your Own Story: How to Use Fiber Arts to Witness Your Daily Life

Billie Zangewa: One Stitch at a Time

And more:

Creative Restoration re-released my podcast episode about the benefits of crochet.

I was included in this terrific directory:

A Chronic Illness and Disability Substack Directory

A book I wrote a long time ago showed up on Facebook:

And someone on Threads shared a more recent book I wrote:

This is the monthly recap of everything I wrote in July plus some life updates and other things. If you like to keep your inbox quiet, you are able to subscribe just to these monthly updates. Here’s how.