20/20

As I wrap up writing the history of my work over the last 20 years I feel have arrived at a point where 2020 marks the beginning of the second chapter as an artist/ thinker/designer /maker. 

I have taken the time to explore my craft at my own pace. 

I have not followed  trends, purely my heart.

My art  tells my life story. My visions. My dreams. My passions. But it also tells everyone's story. Love, peace, desperation, hope, joy, heartbreak, simple and complex beauty. 

I strive to be great not for the sake to say I'm great but because it is the ultimate challenge to myself.

I love boxing and have invested the same amount of dedication that a champion must. Day in and day out focused, working tirelessly. My work becomes my opponents. The next piece a greater challenge.

I feel immensely blessed for the ability to have the opportunities I have had and continue to have. 

I am grateful.
I am excited.
I am thankful.
and as the winter of 2020 turns to spring I am inspired to work the hardest I ever have and in the words of Curtis Mayfield just Keep On Keepin' On.

When I picked up the guitar at 12 I wanted to be like Bob Dylan. I loved writing poetry and songs thinking that was my path and in a way it has been I just have wrote my songs in a different way.

I went on to study jazz performance which opened an incredible universe to me eventually leading me to woodwork.

Although I am a woodworker/sculptor I will always first and foremost be a musician. It is my pulse and how I think and feel life.

So I leave with the lyrics of Bob Dylan's  Forever Young, a song that will always play in my heart  :

May God bless and keep you always,
May your wishes all come true,
May you always do for others
And let others do for you.
May you build a ladder to the stars
And climb on every rung,
May you stay forever young,
Forever young, forever young,
May you stay forever young.
May you grow up to be righteous,
May you grow up to be true,
May you always know the truth
And see the lights surrounding you.
May you always be courageous,
Stand upright and be strong,
May you stay forever young,
Forever young, forever young,
May you stay forever young.

Sorry this blog has been written from 2001 to present so if you want to start chronologically you can click on the February link on the right under archives to begin at the beginning.