The Alphabet of Everything: Art, Attention, and the Ineffable

We live in a world richer than description. Language reveals only by leaving out, and when words fall short — when grief overtakes us, when beauty stills us — we do not fall silent. We reach. We shape. We art.

This workshop is an invitation into the space beyond language. Guided by The Alphabet of Everything, an approach to abstraction that requires deep attention, we will explore how every mark, shape, and gesture can be seen as part of a shared, primordial visual language — a living alphabet sourced from cracks in pavement, lichen on stone, diagrams, dreams, bones, shadows, and myth. 

During this week of guided creative exploration, you will: 

• Discover waxed powder painting, a meditative art form developed by the instructor that employs powdered pigments and beeswax to create richly layered, textured surfaces.
  
• Work with fieldwalks, somatic prompts, and imagination-rewilding practices—all designed to complement your studio work, loosen the grip of overthinking, and awaken fresh ways of perceiving.
• Engage with the consciousness continuum and explore how different states — attention, reverie, dream, silence, awe — can serve as portals to deeper knowledge.

Our shared space will be gentle, reverent, and non-performative — no prior art experience is needed. The focus will be on presence and process rather than critique or outcomes. The studio will act as a threshold, not a factory, especially supportive for those at personal or creative crossroads. 

Anyone drawn to mystery, meaning, and the quiet hum beneath the visible — whether you identify as an artist, a seeker, or simply someone ready to listen more deeply — will find practices here that nourish creativity and restore intuitive capacity. Come with open hands and eyes. Come ready to shape what cannot be said.

This workshop includes an additional $20 material fee.