“None of this means my past will be tossed aside. Growth is a funny thing. It can be incremental, and it can arrive in bursts, but it always takes time. Works like the one above will not disappear. They will morph, and I am hopeful that from that change a new direction, and whole new worlds to explore, will open up.”

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“We can’t observe a flower’s slow response to its environment overtly. In a moment of close looking, the object itself feels still. A leaf may move with the wind, yet beneath that stillness an underlying mechanics never stops. This is the deep balance that holds an environment’s inhabitants together, a system that, though it lies beneath our immediate senses, is vast on a scale difficult to comprehend.”

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“Art isn’t static the way the finished object is, physically unchanged once it’s made. But art is never static from the viewer’s side, even when the viewer is the artist. That insight is exactly what I need right now, and it’s why I’ve been spending so much time with my older work. It’s there to serve me: to show me where I was, and where I need to go next.”

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“Yet I also feel art tells a story, and more importantly leaves a resonate feeling that moves the viewer in a specific direction. An expansion if you will. So my question then is does the work need an explanation to further this cause? Or is it simply the interaction between what consciously, and unconsciously, comes from the artist and what it is the viewer sees and takes away from experiencing it?”

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“Our lives do move forward, and in many respects only forward, however reflection on where we came from and the paths we walked is valuable work and helps us prepare for the vast uncertainty we must coexist with. In this artwork I see the direction, I also see the limitations of where I was at that moment. ”

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“As I continue, each piece becomes a fragmentation of older beliefs on what my work can be and become, and sets the stage for opening the space that allows for the next piece, and the next. Despite trying to control and influence aspects of my life that allow for safety and security, I surrender myself to a process that in many ways is beyond my control when I create.”

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“My art becomes resistance to contemporary society’s speed, a safe place that allows me to create and explore the very themes that coincide with the act of creating. It’s very spiritual and meditative. I simultaneously control the placement of each dot and surrender myself to the fact that with each dot comes an unpredictable outcome.”

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“Such projects offer discipline, clarity, and curiosity—companions artists need when momentum falters and inspiration seems elsewhere.”

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“Each artwork carries its purpose forward and outward for others to interact with. Into different lives and new spaces that shape its intention in ways I could not imagine when creating it. Over time I also discover new meaning within what I have created, yet I know that is different from the perception of others and as the artist I celebrate that. Art, like humans, is on a continuous journey of becoming.”

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“I want these essays to explore the practices and mindsets that have shaped my work as both an artist and a teacher. Many years ago I spoke to a student about this very idea. At the time I was just beginning and had not lived long enough within the creative life to understand what I was trying to express. I felt the truth of it but had not yet lived it.”

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“This is the hope that early pieces like “Everything That Is Solid Melts Into Air” ignited in me. I carried that hope openly. Twenty years later, I have made progress but am still on the edge of taking the leap fully.”

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“Twenty years later, I find it challenging to accept that even the life of an artist is filled largely with the trivial and mundane. Yet that is often where grace lives. It lives in the moments when inspiration strikes and you have the bandwidth to see it through.”

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“The dots in my stippled work are, in many ways, a representation of my journey. They form a metaphor for the reality that creative paths are seldom straight lines. They resemble constellations.”

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“Even the smallest parts of the whole matter. The shift from Greek mythology to Renaissance rationalism brought scientific clarity but also an unintended separation—from one another, from community, and from the spirit that once nourished human existence.”

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“It builds patterns of memory that become the framework for our inner maps, guiding us through time, forward and backward, creating the wisdoms that define our truths, purpose, and values.”

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“On the road to becoming we need to recognize that we are not necessarily beginning anew but returning to what was with clearer vision and more embodied resilience.”

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“Life after all is exceptionally stubborn and desires nothing more than continuing. Yet life is also amazingly fragile despite its enduring resilience.”

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“Looking back, what remains is an amalgam of memory and feeling—moments collapsing into a whole.”

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“the call endures, a siren song that feels eternal.”

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“This is not just my struggle—it’s a deeply human one. The need to reset direction, to strive toward a new purpose, is something we all encounter.”

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