🛸 @neverstillstudio taking us into another dimension as 1 pt of their response for The Butterfly Effect (art made in reflection of children’s unfiltered stories) on exhibit now @make.shiftartspace 👾 Go check out their felted alien, my underwater dance party collage, and many many other WILD AND INSPIRED takes on the wonder of a child’s imagination this May.
🦋 Open Thursday-Saturday 1-6pm 🦋
Last one! In just a few hours, 120+ people came through Jack’s House (gift photo station in the basement of @make.shiftartspace on May 1st during the Kids Artwalk). A couple of people opted for analog, we had a Lomo on hand, or cell phone photos instead. Regardless of how the photo was created, I love them all. This was the most fun I’ve had with my camera so far this spring.
Tiny but mighty. Jack’s House might have left orbit, but the installation and photo station gallery is live.
Created for the 2026 Kids Art Walk in the music venue of Make.Shift Art Space, and an incredible group of young artists, this piece was built in response to student work and brought to life through everyone who stepped inside.
You can still explore the full gallery, including student art submissions all month at Make.Shift.
We tried something new this time, delivering photos immediately via text, email, WhatsApp, and AirDrop. Watching those images go live throughout the night and waking up to all the alerts was something else.
Honestly, one of the best compliments Annalee and I can get as creators and photographers sits right next to “when can I do that again?”
Video: screen recording of online gallery scroll of Interactive art installation + photo station from Kids Art Walk at Make.Shift in Bellingham, WA.
Welcome to Jack’s House was a one-night interactive art installation and photo station that we built in a day in the basement of Make.Shift and took down in an hour. This month, Make.Shift partnered with a local school to pair a student artist with a community artist for the annual Kid’s Art Walk. The student created art (theme butterfly effect) and then the community artist created a response piece. For us, this work reached across counties, created relationships, and rippled into laughter over an interactive lighted tentacle.
Our set, plus my emulsion piece in the main floor gallery, was in response to a student’s (Marco) art submission to Make.Shift Art Space titled The Hurricane.
The Hurricane
“Once upon a time there was a boy named Mike. Mike was walking to school when a bird flew over his head. One of its feathers landed on his nose and he sneezed. The air made hurricane Katrina. The bird flew away.
Mike’s house flew away so he had no food and tomorrow he would not have a lunch. A kid named Jack saw he had no lunch and came and sat with Mike. He told Mike that he packed an extra snack and gave Mike granola bar. They started talking about nonsense like video games. Soon they became friends. Mike told Jack his house blew away, so Jack invited him to stay at his house. They played video games together at Jack’s house. They had macaroni and cheese for dinner.
in the middle of the night, Mike woke up because he was hearing weird noises. He looked around and Jack looked weird. Jack is an alien.
The End.” - Marco (Samish Woods Montessori School)
Let’s build it. Let’s be weird. So… Welcome to Jack’s House.
A special thank you to Marco, who we didn’t get to meet, but we hope these photos bring a lot of joy. An extra special thank you to @make.shiftartspace , where our studio is located; @barrettlizza for being kind enough to let me take photos of old TVs in his shop (& for selling me this cool TV); the man from Skagit who gifted us his family couch that we the strapped to the roof of our car; & finally my lifelong friend @gracieface85 , who still takes me to her family home even after I say the ominous…Hey, I have this idea.
Thanks for playing, Bellingham.
Some of the photos I took the weekend before last at the Bellingham Saturday farmers market at the Depot Market Square.
Like a good market should do, there were plenty of times I forgot about my camera—like when I bought an amazing electroform ring for Annalee (can’t find the artists name!)
and magnet/sticker from @holly_z_photography .
There are a few performers pictured that I could not find on IG. If you know them, please help me tag them and I’ll edit the post to include them.
Protesters march down Commercial Street during the No Kings Rally in downtown Bellingham, Washington, March 28, 2026. The demonstration was part of a nationwide day of action.
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There are photos - only a few so far - that have truly caught the magic of this dream realized.
Britt nailed it. The best part - I didn’t even know the moment was being captured.
GIRLnDOG is about the cookies but also about the importance of continuing to put one foot in front of the other. That 1954 Shasta was lost but then we found her. And turned her into the greatest vintage cookie shop on wheels.
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