John Muir Laws has a way of teaching us how to see—not simply to look, catalogue or capture, but to...
Simple Let’s keep it simple.Clouds. Water. Rain.No solid geometry.No history of the Trojan Wars.Light the candlebut leave flameto melt wax...
If you haven’t read the first two articles in this La Paz series, visit the first here and here» I’m...
“Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.” – Emily Brontë October ushers in the time of...
One day, a few years back, a painting caught my eye as I roamed through an art museum in Nashville,...
“We can’t always choose the music life plays for us, but we can choose how we dance to it.” –...
I Have Something You Want to Hear I have been ripped apartI have been torn apartI am a good poetI...
In times of social upheaval, all human beings (whether they’re conscious of this or not) are challenged to question the...
In a society that is increasingly isolating us inside condominiums, with the Coronavirus and with remote work, street art is...
It’s been a couple of ugly years of unease and upset. It’s been ongoing questions, debilitating unknowns and quiet frustrations....
In the 1990s, near the end of his life, I became friends with a neighbour of mine in Los Angeles,...
The first 10 to 15 years of Jeppe Hein’s artistic career are reminiscent of a mountaineer’s struggle on Mount Everest....
When I was a kid, my parents took me to a lot of museums. They hoped I’d develop a lifelong...
After decades of work pioneered by great minds like Daniel Levitin (This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession), Oliver Sacks...
“Where they burn books, they will, in the end, burn human beings too.” – Heinrich Heine, Almansor (1821) Once there were only...
The French philosopher Gilles Deleuze once said: “There is no need to fear or hope, but only to look for...
I recently read an interview about Jane Olivier, a human rights activist and poet, and the interview was informative about...
The Journey Not everything Happens at once You are an Idea Which has unfolded Like the petals Of a flower...
Interplay among mindfulness, art and nature Mindfulness is a state of gentle awareness. It’s observation, attentiveness and tuning inward. It’s...
A Process of Birth Our house is filling up with paintings! Where do they come from? From inside me, of...
A memorable birthday card On my 25th birthday, my closest friend gave me a card that said, “Being an artist...
[su_panel background=”#d5c38b” color=”#000000″ border=”0px none #ffffff” shadow=”0px 0px 0px #ffffff”]The following has been excerpted from Mindfulness & the Art of...
The artistic value of “making stuff up” I’ve long been wary of memoirs, autobiographies and anything else plastered with the...
Down the Trail I saw a man with a stick and a hat, and he was walkin’. He looked like...
