I enjoy watching surfers. Although not because I necessarily relate to this element of Southern California beach culture - in fact, I don't. I am from the icy, cold Midwest and never contemplated surfing once growing up, aside from hearing the occasional Beach Boys tune while riding with my dad in the car. But the […]
Sometimes the path through life is winding and offers up untrodden twists and turns that hint at adventure and spark curiosity. It asks for a willingness to surrender to the unknown, to trust the turns without being able to see the path laid out, and to delight in the myriad of discoveries that are within […]
I've been in a creative limbo time for a bit and it's been frustrating. One can't really control these things, or wish them away when they appear. Such is life for everyone, huh. I certainly don't have any answers about any of it. But it does feel like I am in the midst of a […]
I'm one who likes to know the big picture in life. But sometimes, life circumstances affect us in such a way that knowing the big picture is not really possible. We are then forced to live a bit more daily. But sometimes daily is ok (and even freeing) because we end up finding out that […]
I'm in the process of moving my studio back home. But this time, the moving involved includes cleaning out things at home and moving a few items to a storage space in order to make room for all the art stuff that will be returning again. I've always been against storage spaces in theory...why in […]
The spirit behind things matters so much more than the action itself. You can take the same person and the same action, and in one case it might be the exact thing that's necessary because of what is driving it, and in the other case it may be completely misdirected. It's always what's underneath that […]
I read an artist's thoughts the other day about the visual landscape we live in and how it communicates to us constantly, often in ways we don't consciously recognize. Given that I'm an artist, I guess it'd be natural to assume that I think about visual communication a lot. But, I actually don't, day to […]