Category Archives: blog

For the Birds

Birds I can see out my window.

Seagull

The number one trash item I see on the beach is water bottles. It’s not a returnable in Massachusetts so the people who collect soda cans and beer bottles don’t collect them and for some reason, many beach-goers don’t recycle them or throw them away.

Invasive Species

Adrift

Navigating the changing education system.

If I Had a Hammer

Here’s how a lot of remodeling projects happen:

You find this perfect little item for your house that is so you, so cool, so loveable that you have to buy it and you can’t wait to get it home. Only when you get home it doesn’t quite go with all of the stuff you already have.

So, you move the furniture a bit, change around the throw pillows and coasters and it still doesn’t go. OK, how about a new coat of paint on the walls? The new paint color doesn’t go with the curtains. So you buy new curtains and slipcovers and throw rugs and you hang new pictures and you install crown molding and you hand gild the coffee table and build bookshelves and rewire the house to accommodate the new lighting fixtures that will perfectly accent your new found object.

Yeah, it’s like that.

I have some new work that I am excited about that I want to get up on the website but it doesn’t quite go with the old website.

So for now, I apologize for the mess and inconvenience.

In the mean time you can follow what I am up to you can check me out on Instagram, twitter or tumblr.

Moira Birch Swiatkowski

Illustration