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the lizard brain

“In my experience, you always think you know what you’re doing; you always think you can explain, but you always discover, years later, that you didn’t and you couldn’t. This leads me to suspect that the principal function of human reason is to rationalize what your lizard brain demands of you. That’s my idea. [...]

half a room of one’s own

Today is a big deal for me: I officially have studio space in an artist’s building here in Eastie.

I’m sharing a big space with the fabulously talented jeweler Jaye Woodstock. (If that name sounds familiar, it might be because Lisa gave me one of her rings for my birthday last year, and I posted a [...]

Don’t leave home without it

“In a world like this, art is not a luxury, if a luxury is something we can do without. Art is essential equipment for the task of being human.”