What if you’re wrong?
I know
You’re not
I’m just sayin’
You could be
This is what a GOP President could have said months ago, leading into an election where his party was concerned about voter fraud.
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Don’t you love it when an idea pops in your head and something clicks? It happened to me the other day. I’m sitting there doing a meditation / creative visualization technique I do to pick up new ideas and get guidance, and this quote comes into my head by Confucius:
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My grandfather fought in WWII, fighting against authoritarianism and genocide, to protect the freedom we enjoy today. I’m forever grateful. His unit was one of the first Allied units to enter and liberate Auschwitz. I could never get him to talk much about it. All he’d say was the horrors he witnessed were beyond words.
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After hearing the President's disappointing speech on Monday, I wrote and delivered one of my own. It expresses what I wish a President would say in response to the killings of George Floyd, Amaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor and the subsequent civil uprising.
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After 18 months of work, my 32' wall sculpture mural "I Could Sit Here All Day" was installed over two days in Brentwood, CA.
I made this video documenting the install process. It was quite the production!
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This is a great interview with Elise Boivin from Artly Owl, an art consulting company in the Bay area. Wonderful agency. Wonderful questions. Really enjoyed the conversation. Thanks Elise!
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We are going through an experience right now that they will write chapters about in the history books of the future. Living in Los Angeles, I’ve lived through quite a few extreme moments in history…earthquakes, riots, fires and mass shootings. But this is a first. This time it’s planetary. Usually when the entire world is involved, it’s for a war, where one part of the planet is pitted against another.
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I forget it sometimes. This experience with the Coronavirus has reminded me that it's mostly ideas and beliefs that separate us. Nothing else. As we're physically separated, in some ways I feel more connected.
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I used to get a little sad after the holidays ended. During the holidays, life is a little more...lifey...I’d continue to do my regular routines, jobs, etc. but there’d be an additional thread running through that pervades everything. Celebration. Happiness. A focus on “things that matter.”
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This is an interview I did recently with Shana Nys Dambrot for the LA Weekly.
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Fog is my favorite
It imposes itself
On the morning
Takes over
Without force
No vote
No coup
We're plugging away on my 32' layered mural going up soon in Brentwood, CA. After almost a year, it feels good to see it coming together.
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I am creating a small scale model of the mural project in order to work out some engineering issues. Also, I expected a few surprises when I got it off the screen and into 3D space...and I got them!
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I have a new large scale commission project that just got approved. So I began work on it this week. Which means...running all over LA picking up supplies. It's a glamorous life…sometimes :)
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Sometimes I still fall into the trap of romanticizing my idea of being an “artist.” Living from mindblowing inspiration to inspiration. Getting struck by an idea, sitting down, and cranking it out. It's all so magical and effortless in my mind.
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My bag of childhood memories mainly consists of the typical variety…a few heartbreaks, a couple key successes, failures, a bunch of “firsts” (first kiss, first love, etc.) and a few outliers. As I was working on new art for my “Overthrow the Quo” exhibit, one of those outliers popped into mind as particularly relevant.
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I don't always have much work in progress to share, since my process all comes together right at the last minute, but I have one today.
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I took a break while waiting for a coat of varnish to dry on a piece for my upcoming show at Fabrik Projects in Culver City, CA to play one of my favorite Tom Waits songs…
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I studied Buddhism when I was younger and was always fascinated by the Buddhist koans. Short poems made to short circuit the logical mind and open an opportunity to experience an enlightened state. Much of my interest in music and art stems from this same idea.
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