Category: Creative Life
2024: The Year of Wonder?
You know the feeling of awe. Awe is passive, it is amazement, and it usually passes. But, if you can catch it in the moment, then it might just be the thing that sets off your sense of wonder.
Figure & Life Drawing – Day 1
(posted retroactively on 3/26/2025) From a life drawing session hosted at Blue Spiral gallery in Asheville. I willed myself to go if only to try something different. The results are…results.
Notes On: The Manifesto
The first draft of every manifesto comes from a place of fear, anxiety, frustration – a position of “fuck this.” A single event – bad traffic, an asshole boss, an absurdly horrible day – and the pressure is let off. The gas burns, the rant begins. Most people rant, rave, have three glasses of wine…
From Mistakes to Style #1
“A mistake repeated more than once is a decision.” Pablo Coelho “Once is a mistake. Twice is an idea. Three times is style.” Miles Davis At least, I think it was Miles who said that. Maybe it was someone else, maybe it was no one else, at the very least I hope it wasn’t someone…