Art is weird. I made this painting in 2019 but it’s hard to imagine making this work now—a strange experience to encounter my six-years-ago mind framed and on paper and feel it was created by someone else who was (is?) me.

My commutes have significantly improved this week by coming back to this collection as an audio experience. All gratitude to @dseuss.bsky.social for the wonderful poems and improved headspace.

Here we go.

My most recent painting “The Fullness.” How am I still astounded at the multiplicity & simultaneity of life? How one moment contains so much. Joy, grief, tenderness, outrage. The simple pleasure of coffee with friends; watching my son climb a tree, even as bombs fall & fires erase neighborhoods…

After nearly five years of mostly painting, 2024 was a big year for poems—and finding a better balance between the two. I was especially glad to finish this piece, “Better Chords,” started in 2022. Here’s to hoping 2025 is full of all kinds of music, on the page and in the studio.