June hudson

I’ve always liked making things––from chalk drawings on hot Texas sidewalks to elaborate sand castles with my older brother, to following his instructions for making paper airplanes we’d decorate with designs and numbers then compete to see whose would stay in the air the longest (he always won). In fifth grade I had an art class and learned to weave simple potholders and paint on butcher paper with oozy tempera paint. I liked to cut photographs out of newspapers and magazines and doodle over different sections of the picture with a black fountain pen my dad would loan me. Collage without cutting and pasting was fun. 

In Junior High School I was told I could no longer wear bluejeans, oversized shirts and tennis shoes to school as I’d always done but now had to wear dresses. Ugh. I then started making different kinds of things––clothes. Using my mother’s Singer sewing machine I learned to read Simplicity and McCall's patterns then made dresses, skirts and blouses. I found I really liked making something from nothing.

Years passed designing and making my clothes until I met an artist named Cassie who lived in my apartment building. I liked to watch her paint and one day she asked me, “Rather than just sewing why don’t you try making some different art?” And she got me started with a couple of tubes of paint and bushes and lots of encouragement. Over the years I’ve moved from sewing and doodling to drawing, then painting, then building constructions after discovering the fun of saber saws, and finally found home, photography.

“I know how the eye works, what its primary impetus and desire is:

to lay its gaze upon the beautiful and for Beauty to wink back.”

Hafiz

I am grateful to my husband, children, grandchildren and others who support me in my search for winks to photograph and suggest places where winks might be hiding. And many thanks to theratech David Wysocki of moonvalleymac.com whose technical and photographic experience was invaluable in building this website.Thanks to you all.

P.S. I've gone back to wearing men's bluejeans and oversized shirts again. Why– because the pockets are big enough to hold my camera, note pads and pairs of glasses.