An essay that didn’t go where I thought it was going to. — There were two kinds of coins on the big red Buddha statue at the entrance to the Dim Sum restaurant where Michael was waiting for me. There were the american coins placed in the flat portusion of the laughing buddha’s happy belly. The place where you’re meant to leave a…

The importance of putting your art away. — The most important thing, I’ve found is putting it away. Well, that’s not nearly important as picking it up again every day but we’re just going to go ahead and say that that is the bare minimum of a an artistic practice, and take that as a given: You’ve got…

5.13.2022 I don’t really know how to say what I want to say. I know that I feel this near constant tension that makes it hard to relax, and that the caffeine has something to do with it, but that’s old news by now I’m sure if you’ve read any…

I woke up this morning in a rush to get to work. This seemed to hurt my girlfriends feeling because I did not say good morning or take the time to give her a good morning kiss. …

Being Chapter 17 in the Tale “The Only Way Was East” —

Are NFT’s and Web3 creating a new era for artists? — [Ancient peoples] hunted and gathered and there were no large coloric surpluses. So, every healthy person would have had to contribute to acquisition of food and water, and yet somehow, they still made time to create art. Almost as if art isn’t optional for humans. -John Green, The Anthropocine Reviewed. …