I don’t necessarily love to create art all of the time. I feel I have to create it in order to understand love and to understand our world.
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I would describe the best art I’ve made as ‘Un-compromised Expression Exercises’. I try not to think of the act of painting or making music as anything other than magic. I’ve made a living being creative— a lot of times for decent compensation which sometimes compromises the output. Ideally, my favorite art expressions are unfiltered, honest and ad hoc, borrowing from vast selections of memory and experience in what continues to be a beautiful life.
Where do you find inspiration?Anywhere. Any time. My observations are autonomic and sometimes overwhelming. I draw from anything that tickles my brain. Right this instant, it’s the marvel of opposable thumbs as I twiddle away making this message on my pocket computer. That’s a wild and inspiring thing to comprehend when you get down to it. Wonder should never cease in all of us.
What would you do with $25,000?Invest it directly into my beautiful daughters who are constant support, sources of inspiration and energetic wonder. I hope that whatever they do in their lives, it adds beauty and abates the strife of oppressed and underserved communities. The world is their oyster now and I am merely shucking in the background.
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