VANITAS was shown in Spokane at the Kolva Sullivan gallery displaying work produced over the course of 2021 and 2022 along with 4 poems...

“When the time comes to you at which you will be forced at last to utter the speech which has lain at the center of your soul for years,...

An exploration of the value of humility as told through the lens of characters we can imagine.

It is wishful thinking or naïve simplicity to believe the field of ethics and morality is as black and white as we would wish it to be....

Better it is to live one day seeing the rise and fall of things than to live a hundred years without ever seeing the rise and fall of...

“I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking” ― Albert Einstein If you don’t think you are a “creative...

“Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or...

Jennifer LaRue and I have a conversation about art, meaning in art, what I am doing in my work and my show witness. This hour long radio...

People throughout history worried that unless we put all our faith in some set of absolute answers, human society will crumble. In fact,...

"Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind before you reach eighteen." -Albert Einstein Common...

“is there not some point of wisdom beyond the conflicts of illusion and truth by which lives can be put back together again? ― Joseph...

Thoughts on Humility.

It is easy to empathize with the idea that “your vote doesn't matter” in the era of the 24 hour news cycle. Focused exclusively on...

The process of constructing and preparing a canvas can take nearly as long as painting the painting itself. First the building, cutting,...

When my friends visit my house, I always make a point to have them run a hand across the surface of a painting. Everyone secretly wants...

"Santana" 7/8/14 John deRoulet "Butter tinted sunlight dripping thickly through dusty air. 100 degrees and dry except for the cellophane...

“Part of the problem is that artists of my generation were not educated. We were not given the equipment because it was generally...

“After all, the error rests in the mistaken idea that the subject of a painting is the object painted.” – Robert Henri My current...

Cover: Parnassus by Mark Tobey There is a show at the Seattle art museum on a group of artists coined the North West Mystics by a 1953...

**Image: Jim Beam - J.B. Turner Train by artist Jeff Koons. "The sculpture was created in 1986 as part of a Jeff Koons exhibition called...