In Process

Without a doubt, one of the best things about having a studio at the Box is getting to see other artists’ gravity-defying ideas take form. Giant traffic popsicle (certainly, not his description) by Daniel Bertalot.

It’s also always inspiring to see artists bringing big ideas to form, particularly when I’m on a phase of a project that is small and needling. Case in point: I’ll have dipped a few thousand landscape staples in plasti dip before Safety Yellow is ready to install in the Houston Heights.

Rebecca Braziel at work in the studio

In December, Rebecca and I moved into a shared studio space at Box 13. She said she knew she wanted to rent that particular space when she saw the green floors. My rationale was more basic: I was going with her! Though this picture doesn’t give proper due to the majesty of the emerald tiles, I feel like it does capture the artist, my friend, in her natural habitat—and that at this point, she has to know when I’m creeping up behind her for a shot…

Midas Touch

I relish passing this dingy, unoccupied storefront, finding joy in the adjacent brickwork, the indecipherable font chosen for the sign, and of course, the fact that someone named their business after a mythic curse.

Of course, the sky here isn’t bad, either. I frequently muse that though Houston lacks any kind of topographical excitement, the big sky cloud scene more than makes up for it.