These past few weeks, I have been working steadily on some beautiful and need-driven projects. But I am in it for the fun too,  so my path took a wide swerve to the weird side. Trust me , that is not too far from my ordinary day, but I DO try to keep my wacky cat in the bag! Packing a science degree, know that I spent many years peeking into the magical world of microbes. They are an insidious [...]

You may be asking yourself, what do these two elements have in common? Well, as a self-employed person, I am responsible for finding new work all of the time. No resting on my laurels. (wait, I HAVE laurels??) My workload ebbs and flows with no particular pattern. In between the “ebb” and “flow”, I have to think up new ways to entertain myself and YOU. It is one of my goals in the grand trifecta of goal setting..enlighten, inform and/or [...]

This past year, Purple Cloud Studio became incorporated and the entity is MP2, Inc. Sounds like I sold out, right? Not so much, I am stepping up my business prowess. It seems that if you are in the Art business, short of owning an upscale gallery, people assume things about you. For example, maybe she will get a job one day, you know how “flighty” Artists are, what is her “real” job, oh, one of those “here today, bored and [...]

In paging through my body of work, my all time favorite group of team members hail from Odyssey Marine Exploration. A Tampa based operation of shipwreck salvors who work in harmony with the environment while rescuing and preserving artifacts from the sea floor. They are progressive thinkers, gave me lots of Artistic elbow room, held interesting events and are all around fun lovers! What more could I ask for?? They are great! My first project was to create a line [...]

Yes, a tiny homage to my football-lovin’ husband! (he’d be so proud of me, making a football reference!!) But here we are, staring the end of the year right in the face. With an odd start and a slower- than- glacial pace, it finally picked up. Apparently, all I had to do was go find a job outside of Michele-land. (what!!) It did not last, I got busy with art, thankfully. I used to think that my lack of focus [...]

Being  fully aware that this may be a great visual of my brain, a scan of it will never be required. It is twisted and convoluted with LOTS going on! Not a cobweb to be found. No dust bunnies lurking in the recesses of this mind.  The brain is a perfect recorder of events through multi-sensory input never missing a thing.  Total recall is always an option, but we may just be too lazy to figure out where all of [...]