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"A perspective that has seen me through powerful obstacles and upheavals is one that allows me to forego looking at myself as one TRYING to be an artist and instead, give my life--completely--to the idea that I am an artist ALREADY, though one constantly learning. If you will, allow me to refer to the Early Christian Church for a paradigm." [...]

1. The Ceiling is "You" Author John Maxwell nailed it in his book, The 21 Indisputable Laws of Leadership: Your ceiling is everyone's ceiling who follows you. How does this apply to the artist? Value of your work is set not by you yourself but by those who follow you. Your ceiling is your best at this moment. Increase the ceiling, (learn, grow, get better) and your ceiling grows. There are followers at your current ceiling's level, but above that are more followers--patrons in fact--that are waiting for you to grow your ceiling into their purview. They do not know you yet [...]

Alan Kay said, "The best way to predict the future is to invent it." This is profound in its simplicity. Think about what this might actually mean to you and me as artists or as thinkers dreaming big thoughts about our hope: 1. Invent a Future There is a life without a future, however this is a hard pill to swallow. Recently I read Cormac McCarthy's "The Road". The genius in this very chilling novel is that, in its simplicity, the only virtue that remains in a dead post-holocaust world is Love and then Hope. It is shown throughout the entire novel that [...]