I create art to learn, to grow, to explore, to convey, to resolve, to dispute, to reflect, to leave something behind, to pick up what I’ve found, to bask in the moment, to take a closer look, to ask, to breathe, to be selfish, to be selfless, to humor, [...]
I’m not entirely sure why I make art or rather, that’s why I do it. That irrational, illogical drive to create (destroying and rebuilding as dialog) is what makes us human. Storytelling (in its infinite forms) defines us as self-referential, self-reflective, infinite beings. The drive for the impossible, that sometimes we actually touch upon with [...]
I make art to take part in conversations that were going on before me and conversations that will go on long after I’ve gone.
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As a boy, I kept a list of all the professions that intersted me. In no particular order, that list included riding shotgun on the back of a garbage truck, train engineer, spy, explorer of faraway lands, soldier, dentist (like my father), and painter. With the wisdom of maturity, each of these achieved its final [...]
