Keeping a sketchbook is an integral part of Ellen's art practice, and is one of her favorite grounding practices. Since she was a young babe Ellen has always kept an artistic journal of some sort. Lately she uses her sketchbook to document moments and people, as an alternative to seeing our world through her phone lens. Sketch-booking allows her a stillness of time, and a spaciousness of space, and an opportunity to slow down the pace of sensory input and output. Her sketchbook keeps Ellen playful, sentimental, and expansive. Often when Ellen feels a creative block she will fill a page in her sketchbook for the duration of one song, and see where it brings her image by it's end. Her sketchbook is a place of meditation, offering a vessel for which to synch eye, mind and hand into flow. Included here is a selection of various sketchbook moments.