Waiting for rain here in northern New Mexico. What will a super El Niño look like?

Harvested the indigo plants two weeks ago. The remaining plants going to seed. Tomorrow I’m hosting an open studio for members ofthe New Mexico Women in the Arts (NM chapter of National Women in the Arts). I dug into the flat files and brought out select works that called me for no particular reason other than that they needed to be part of the mini retrospective I’m curating for the event. 20 plus years of the same spool of metallic thread I picked up at Manny’s Notions in Manhattan, the Khadi cloth monotypes, botanical dye projects, surreal adventures across time and continents, including a coiling 64 page typescript of Henry Miller’s ‘Open Letter to Surrealists Everywhere’ from 1938. It’s all connected as say in Santa Fe.

I printed with master printer Marina Ancona in August. I made some of my first monotypes with her in the mid 1990’s when she worked at the Santa Fe printshop Hand Graphics. I’ve learned so much from watching her work- it is a dream to get to print with her. I’ll be adding a few marks and finishing up the prints this month. Stay tuned. Still all about showing up and planting seeds for a future that acknowledges and supports collective imagination (hello new view!) and honors history, warts and all.

Kathleen McCloud/ Fall 2026

“Every time there is a caring relationship, there is community.” Vandana Shiva