I am an artist that floats between disciplines, mostly as a performing and recording musical artist. I recently hung my first show of watercolor paintings and am looking for more opportunities to paint, especially beautiful landscapes. I am a homesteader at a honeybee farm in rural West Virginia. I recently released an album — Let Out Your Ghosts. I read a lot, mostly in the hammock. I am a meditator, a hiking enthusiast, once-poet and someday-novelist. I live big, I love hard, and I appreciate you.
My parents named me Erika May. Most people call me EMay. Facebook has revealed me to the internet as “Erika” but I still go by EMay in the real world.
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Piles:
- Current Projects:
- Latest Musical Release – Let Out Your Ghosts a rock album I recorded in Los Angeles — big bucket list “check”
- Watercolor Paintings on display at Tiny Llama Gallery and generally experimenting with watercolor all the time.
- Playing rock shows with The Soundmen & planning for our upcoming record (spring 2020)
- Drafting a novel in the “futuristic utopian” genre
- Working on a conceptual art piano piece
- Getting through the backlog of solo acoustic pieces I have not finished
- Garden season is ON at the farm so I should probably get off the computer and go harvest some food. Yum.
- Read Recently – 4+ star only
- The Gift (re-reading this classic for the 5th time)
- Artist as Culture Producer, edited by Sharon Louden
- Harry Potter Series (why did I wait so long!?)
- Trigger Warning by Neil Gaimen
- Wendell Berry’s Collected Poems
- Read Soon:
- Poems by Mary Oliver
- New “free book” finds by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, RW Emerson, HG Wells, etc…
- In my 6-disc CD Player Now – 4+ star only
- Thom Yorke’s ANIMA
- Mark Mulcahey’s Gus
- Rebecca Wudarski’s Palimpsest
- Favorite places
- Tip Top Coffee, Thomas WV (here now)
- Whitegrass Cross-Country Ski Touring Center, Davis WV
- Esalen, Big Sur CA
- Fur Peace Ranch, Athens OH
- Sayulita, Nayarit Mexico
- La Escuela Del Sol, Nicoya Penninsula, Costa Rica
- Healthberry Farm
- A list of things to list someday…
- Favorite Homegrown Food Meals
- Lessons learned by playing with fire
- Favorite hikes in West Virginia
- Interesting facts about bees, honey and mead
- How I keep my sobriety living at a winery
- Favorite gigs I’ve played
- Musicians that I’ve collaborated with
- Favorite things about the current season