Montclaire Elementary School Cupertino, California The best response I have heard to the complaint, “I don’t have any good ideas!” is this: “Show me your bad ideas.” When we terrified of the possibility of trotting out a few bad ideas, we…
As an artist, it is a great privilege to highlight less visible stories. When I first searched for images that would inspire a farmworkers mural (using keywords like Napa Valley harvest, grape pickers, etc.) most of the images Google returned were some version…
Welcome to spring! The weather is warming up, and I am beginning to thaw out from what feels like a very long winter. The birds are chirping, the news is promising, I’m starting to imagine a world where I can…
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…