Jo Gerrard, also known as sistercoyote, makes things well. It's in her nature to create: with words, with images, with her hands, and with a multitude of web-spinning tools. She creates things with beauty and simplicity, with mystery and depth. There is always more beneath the surface.
Ms. Gerrard brings together a clean and simple visual flair with painstaking focus on the perfect details, which informs her web design, her artwork and her photography. Inspiration may strike spontaneously, and then careful composition goes into each final work, creating gems of elegance and grace.
She writes constantly -- articles, essays, reviews, fiction and poetry of award-winning quality. The same minimalist grace that marks her visual design work shows in her sleek and vivid writing. The clarity and brevity of her words are the surface sparkle on deep structures of thought, theme, and interwoven relationships, and images of startling beauty appear without the need for long exposition and florid adjectives.
Ms. Gerrard is a thoroughly modern woman, efficient and literate in both academia and technology, and yet she maintains the ancient handicrafts of knitting and breadmaking. She is a spiritual being without a religion, an embracing presence with no desire for children, a woman of dignity with a wicked sense of humor, and a wise soul with an ever-young heart.
