talk
This week I went to Kepler's bookstore in Menlo Park to hear one of my favourite authors Laurie R. King talk about her new Mary Russell & Sherlock Holmes novel. She chatted quite informally with another crime writer, Catriona McPherson, and I sketched them as I listened.
Afterwards I asked them to sign my sketchbook. What a wonderful evening!
This week I'm in Lawrence, Kansas. Yesterday I gave an artist's talk at University of Kansas about my work, with an emphasis on my printmaking and sketchbooks. The students were very responsive and I really enjoyed discussing my work with them. It's nice to feel I may even have inspired them a little.
I also visited Leila's Hair Museum in Independence, Missouri. It was a little creepy, but in a fascinating can't-look-away sort of way. 
There were old photographs with real hair glued on, as mementos. There were pictures in little frames with hair inside...
There were large ornate gilded frames with decorative flowers made entirely of hair...
There were even simple delicate snippets of hair...
I enjoyed it, as a truly unusual obsessive collection. I recommend it!
