WHY

After years in graphic and web design, and now nearly two decades teaching art, I’ve seen a pattern repeat itself in students, colleagues, and myself.

We don’t lose interest in art because we stop caring. We lose it because the work gets crowded out by responsibility, noise, and expectation.

This site is part of me making room again, not by chasing inspiration, but by returning to basic skills, observation, and the habit of showing up.

Some readers are artists. Some are teachers. Some simply want to reconnect with a part of themselves they’ve neglected.

This site may resonate if:

• you value fundamentals and skill-building over shortcuts

• you’re tired of performative creativity and constant comparison

• you want to think more deeply about process, not just results

• you’re interested in staying creatively engaged over a lifetime

Some entries lean technical. Others are reflective. All of them come from the same place—trying to stay engaged over the long term.

WHO

If you’re new, these journal entries offer a good starting point:

• Starting Again Without Starting Over

• Why Fundamentals Still Matter

• Making Space for the Work You Say You Care About

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Expect new entries to appear when there’s something worth sharing like a studio insight, a classroom moment, or a question that won’t let go.

If you’d like to know when something new is posted, you can join the email list. It’s quiet, optional, and infrequent.

WHERE
+HOW

This site isn’t asking you to keep up, commit, or prove anything.

If something here resonates, stay awhile.

If it nudges you back toward your own work, even better.

If not, that’s okay too.

The work will still be there when you’re ready to return to it.

QUIET
INVITATION

Sometimes the MOST RADICAL THING you can do is SLOW DOWN and BEGIN AGAIN — carefully.