More. Every creative impulse that is followed leads to more creative activity, and a more creative life. I have recently been working my way through the classic but perennially useful course on creativity, The Artist’s Way. I first did the course…
Virtual Book Launch Party! Somewhere in March, I realized 2020 was going to be a different kind of year. I pondered how I might be of service as I followed stay-at-home orders. I calculated that since half of my work…
Hi Mural Friends, This year has been full of surprises. For example, it turns out, the world as we once knew it can be completely rearranged. School, work, travel as we knew it: all transmuted into a zoomingly distant memory. I…
How’s Your Zoom Background? At this point, we are all too familiar with the Zoom drill: turn off your background music, turn on the lights, close the door so the dogs and kids don’t disrupt your meeting. Some of your…
Art alchemizes fear into a higher vision, pain into possibility, loneliness into community. Art is catharsis and declaration. Art is omen and medicine. Atoning. Attuning. Art is the subconscious craning to be attended, transcendence embodied. Art is the Divine’s search…
Seniors Amy Chang, Damla Aydin, and Sreoshi Sarkar helped me paint this mural for the Class of 2020My son graduated from high school yesterday. No parents were allowed at the event. He walked on to the platform, had his photo…
ry This at Home When I was in high school, through a series of dumb luck circumstances, I acted in a series of television commercials. (Addidas, McDonalds, Minute Maid). With my earnings, I bought the cheapest condo ever built. This…
I took two months off from mural painting starting mid-November 2019. I set parameters for myself during this time: no errands, no daytime socializing, just show up to my studio from 9-5 every day with no agenda. I imagined I…
Last night’s Superbowl was a roller coaster ride with a sharp, unfortunate plunge at the end. I am not a football fan (in protest of head injuries and cheerleader salaries), but I know which team was supposed to win last…
In recent months, the ground has been shifting under my feet. I’ve been getting honest with myself about the condition of our planet, and the unsustainability of my current lifestyle. The result is shaking up entrenched beliefs and challenging…