JANICE JOY LITTLE

The week leading up to New Years day, greg and I were able to retreat with some dear friends at Mepkin Abbey - a Trappist monestary in SC. The 5 days were full of prayer, quietude, rest, and some art-making. The landscape is breathtaking -- most notably, the beautiful Live Oaks which have been growing on the property for hundreds of years. Their branches twist and bend and are are teeming with ferns and foliage. They are covered in Spanish moss, which gently sways in the w

I prefer for my artwork to live safely in journals, sketchbooks, and the closet. My creations feel very personal because they embody an entire process of decisions. It feels strange and uncomfortable to quickly share a final product when there were so many layers that cover the decisions you'll never see unless you look very closely and ask many questions and really, really want to know. But still, there's no way to communicate such a thing. So I've remained closed. It's