Meredith ToddFeb 6, 20196 min readHi it's nice to meet you...Welcome to my blog. My name is Meredith - you can call me that; Mer, Merri, Mer-Dawg; but as my mom would say - "don't call me late for...
Meredith ToddFeb 6, 20194 min readThe Stimulus SeriesUntil recently, I had always viewed art as separate from my intellect; a talent absconded from the workable value; an irrelevant “1” to...
Meredith ToddFeb 6, 20192 min readPleasure Of A ScarThe day after I got back to Boise and had driven and walked all over town - remembering and daydreaming until the wee hours - I walked...
Meredith ToddFeb 6, 20192 min readBootlegger ProcessThe problem I sometimes have with “Art” as a subject, juried, taught, labeled, official - is that it exudes some kind of need to be...
Meredith ToddFeb 6, 20192 min readI Wish That We Were Water LiliesStarting with the green leaves scattered in this drawing, I began a painstaking march of filling the page with lines that would be closer...
Meredith ToddFeb 6, 20191 min readAll This Too Shall Crystalize“This too shall pass:” an age old consolation to the masses of those in moments of strife. Along with “there are other fish in the sea,”...
Meredith ToddFeb 6, 20192 min readTsitsikamma SunflowerTowards the end of what would normally be Spring Break - but in South Africa was Autumn Recess - our pack of nomads was lead to the...
Meredith ToddFeb 6, 20193 min read"Draw Me Your Home" On the first Monday of school in Stellenbosch, our lecture let out for lunch and I walked quickly in the direction of a spot to lay in...
Meredith ToddFeb 6, 20192 min readVis(toxi)cousWhen I was little I loved volcanoes, and I learned about viscosity. To think there could be a measure for how runny something is was...
Meredith ToddFeb 6, 20192 min readThe Come DownIn the waltz between “Piercing Presence” and “Nearly-Out-Of-Body Absentmindedness” a common cadence tends to come from Nostalgia,...
Meredith ToddFeb 4, 20182 min readLong to Belong“Well, I was born in a small town in almost-Canada-Idaho (Age 0-2), but I grew up outside of Portland (2-15), but I went to High School...