QUIETLY FLYING

The upside and the downside of making art or being creative is that over time it seems to make you more sensitive to your environment. Sometimes I like this and sometimes I don’t. Every year “Fleet Day” comes to San Francisco and the Air Force spends a long...

SOMETIMES, WALK AWAY

I have noticed an interesting thing about how I learn and how I improve my art. I used to think that the MORE time I spent painting-actually physically working hard was in direct proportion to how much MORE I learned and improved my work. Working hard is something I...

MISTAKEN PATHS

< How much do we influence each? When does influence become copying? These are all questions that all artists have to answer for themselves. If we are honest, we can all say, that at certain times we have copied others work. Nobody wants to admit this-it is so much...

I WANT TO BE A FIREMAN WHEN I GROW UP

My next show is opening May 11th in NYC and I don’t know what I am going to make. I kept thinking that I had so much time. The year hasn’t even really started, my show is not until May which feels like the middle of the year – so close to June which IS the middle of...