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is a painting that was commissioned by a friend I made at Burning Man 2018. He originally asked me to sketch him an octopus with one eye in the center as a tattoo design. I compiled images he liked and sketches he make plus my own imagination and interpretation to bring together this composition. He liked the sketch so much he asked me to turn it into a painting. I loved collaborating to bring my friend’s vision to life.

I have never seen artmaking as a choice, but rather as a necessary and obvious part of living. What I am creating is always changing, but my commitment to creativity is an inevitable constant. The way I see it, the process of artmaking helps to integrate the endless information coming into the brain with the already present and always working imagination. It helps to process past experiences and vision future ones, all the while giving my mind, body and spirit a pathway to actually BE in the present moment of creation. As I paint, I notice my breathing slows down. I enter a zone of concentration that last hours longer than I can concentrate on any other activity. Even though my left arm is doing most of the work and I am often for hours...