an artist's gotta art

If you can sustain your interest in what you're doing, you're an extremely fortunate person. ... And you can't lose your capacity for astonishment. It's a great loss. Because the world is a very astonishing place. The great benefit of being in the arts, where the possibliity for learning never disappears, we basically have to admit you're never... See more

One of the unexpected and wonderful outcomes of using a pen plotter is that no two pieces of artwork are ever the same. The pen may draw the exact same paths and shapes, but the resulting inked image will always be different and unique. I really wanted to create artwork that felt familiar but intangible and out of reach, like that feeling you get... See more

I stopped going to class not long afterward, and I never went back. Partly because of that incident, and also because the stories and essays I turned into the class always received very bad grades, “D”’s, or “F”’s, probably because I hadn’t followed the instructions. I was supposed to pay attention to character development and the denouement and... See more