Connect What is your favorite type of art to create?

This is such a fascinating question, because it changes as the flow changes. My most obvious interest is painting, because those are often done with intense dedication and joy. However, I have a big secret: unless I also serve my relentless passion to make music, by playing with synthesizers or noodling around on a guitar, playing some Chopin badly on the piano, then I find myself in a malaise. My favorite art to make is whatever will scratch my undying itch to create.

Where do you find inspiration?

My inspiration comes from playful encounters with strangers. Perhaps a more stylish answer might be sexual bliss, or the muse, or something alchemical related to my transmutation of pain, but in my experience my most "upper level creativity" comes from encouraging others in small ways. A simple availability to life has always sufficed to me, and I draw my playful attitude about life from esoteric religious secrets, from yoga, from Biblical Hebrew and Greek, and from my delightful taste of love

What would you do with $25,000?

Once upon a time, a gallery found me and gave me a wild shot, to be a serious fine artist. Someone believed in me, and suddenly with their direction, I was creating bigger, more excellent artwork, and my work gained a new authority. If I had $25,000, I would very likely structure at least some of it to make a new gallery where I could provide that same opportunity to eight of my favorite local artists. These artists friends of mine need an opportunity and a dare, and I would do that, and thrive.