Dailiness is a tool I use to reclaim and rediscover the fleeting, seemingly mundane moments from our days, like holding an egg or tearing a piece of tape.  I record observations - tender shapes, quiet lines, piles of flattened marks and textures, containers of moments that attracted me, saddened me, loved me - on small cards, labeled each with a sequential number.  These images illustrate spontaneous markers of ideas, feelings and experiences.  Collecting imagery via dailiness serves as an intuitive archiving mechanism, resulting in an image diary.  Over time, a private, iconic language grows.  This language guides me in creating landscapes, patterns and abstract work.  Once these acts of dailiness are processed, they are given a new home; they serve as an invaluable personal tool to evaluate and love, forget and remember, cherish and release.

Sometimes a day is a week or a year or a moment.  It doesn't really matter, though.  I like breaks.

Dailiness cards lined up on my studio wall, 2006.  (delightful indeed)