I am writing this as a love letter to all those in my life who have ever felt plagued by the creative force within them. To the outside world, creativity can appear to be a gift, tantamount to an incredible new hobby that went very, very right. It can even be seen as a mindless pastime, generating so much financial abundance and critical acclaim that the artist simply had no choice but to blissfully follow its gentle call. If this was your experience, by all means, stop readi

People joke about hearing voices. Others diagnose it, romanticize it, ignore it, or deny it. But we all have at least two voices in our conscious minds, and it is that second voice I most delicately care for if I am to have any hope of creating my next work of art. After a four day gallery art show in Las Vegas, staying with family in extreme heat, and literally no sleep, I arrived home to what most might assume was a comfy bed and some well earned rest. When that second voic

There is this Voice that has always lived within me. It's the kind of Presence that I just knew had shown up long before I ever did; as She already knew the time and place, and all of our surroundings... held the maps, and even, possessed each key we could ever possibly need. I was her loyal subject as a child, long before my will and perspective had been polluted with useless things like fear and need, or the taste for an ever illusive approval from others who could no longe