(January 31, 2020/ Photo: Jorge Ibanez) As I come to the end of an amazing year of revelations, discoveries, agonizing indecisions and huge acts of faith and acceptance, I sense a world of new horizons opening ahead of me. For one, I am wrapping a yearlong exploration of breads, bread baking and techniques, my previous...Read More

(December 20, 2018/ Illustration: segment of illustration for book cover by Juan Ibanez) This morning Alta delivered the box of my poem book, Mearcstapa. This has been a project postponed for decades (funny that as you age you can say this about more and more ‘things’) and the most recent step in my Kick the...Read More

(November 01, 2018/ Jorge Ibanez / Photo: Jorge Ibanez)   A couple of weeks ago, I was referred from an online article to an interesting site that I would highly recommend, <a href=”http://www.openculture.com/”>Open Culture</a>. The featured article was at that time a review of an interesting blog, <a href=”https://dailystoic.com/”>The Daily Stoic</a>. This is a beautifully...Read More

(July 8, 2018, 2018 / Digital Art: Jorge Ibanez)   I developed the digital design series Postcards from the Darklands in 2016 for a poem book of the same title by Gainesville poet Jimmy Fishshawk. It consisted of ten digitally altered versions of photos I took in my travels through France and Italy. We aimed...Read More