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3 Seconds to save her creative life.

Have you ever walked into a room full of artists and immediately felt like the worst one there? Like everyone else got the memo and somehow you missed it? In…

Gloved hand using a paint roller to apply orange paint on a colorful abstract mural with teal, pink, and gray sections.

I was a controller in the studio…

For years I controlled every mark I made in my paintings. My hand. My intention. Every decision accounted for. Then I picked up a trowel and everything changed. In this post I share what a trowel does that a brush never can, what I learned from painter Gerhard Richter about…

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Smiling man with gray hair in a black shirt leaning on a painted wall backdrop with abstract art.

I went to Santa Fe to see great art (It almost made me quit.)

When I first started making art I drove to Santa Fe to see what I thought would be the best art in the country. Gallery after gallery on Canyon Road. All of it technically flawless. And the longer I looked at it the smaller I felt. Then almost by accident…

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Older man with gray hair in a blue shirt sits on a light sofa, a lavalier mic clipped to his chest, in a living room with striped wall art behind him to the right.

What I asked AI at midnight…

A few weeks ago I drove a thousand miles into Baja Mexico alone. Late at night, deep in the desert with no cell signal, I asked AI one simple question on impulse. A question that every person has an answer to. Especially artists. And it couldn’t answer it. What I…

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