Archive - Karen’s Substack

My answer to James Bridgman's latest photograph in our Inflection project

May 24 •

Karen Topp - Art

April 2025

Inflection - my turn

Getting my cogs turning for my next response.

Apr 19 •

Karen Topp - Art

March 2025

De-Composed (framed)

I promised I would post a picture of this first response in the Inflection project once framed...

Mar 8 •

Karen Topp - Art

Randomness, chance, and surrender

How I have been incorporating intentional accidents and luck into my work.

Mar 7 •

Karen Topp - Art

February 2025

January 2025

Curating, distilling, discarding

Lately I have been increasingly drawn to the practice of producing lots of spontaneous and experimental works around one initial idea, then leaving…

Jan 27 •

Karen Topp - Art

First inflection (working on it)

I mentioned before that Creative Explorer and I agreed on a shared project for this year: to respond, each month, to each other's work with one of our…

Jan 20 •

Karen Topp - Art

Back at the easel

Jan 17 •

Karen Topp - Art

A slow start (or is it?)

Jan 14 •

Karen Topp - Art

Dear subscribers,

Jan 6 •

Karen Topp - Art

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