In the London Underground commuters are warned to “mind the gap,” lest they fall between the platform and the open door to the train.The gap is dangerous. To fall into it, deadly. Between what we know and don’t know there is also a gap. It goes by many names —…

A Sketch a Day, Everyday: What I’ve Learned So Far Art is never the result of what you set out to do. At the beginning of the year, my friend Mindy convinced me to do a sketch a day with her. …

What salmon know about how to defy gravity It turns out facing things is not as hard, not nearly as hard, as resisting them. …

It turns out that the key to learning how to walk is learning how to fall. Infants who are learning to walk don’t move forward in one continuous straight line.They take a step, lose their balance and fall.They speed forward, stop short, fall backward. …

Does Chat GPT have a sense of humor? You decide

Face #3 of 30 Days of Faces and Places Faces That Reveal Hidden Emotions I began this painting with reference to a photo of a man whom I found attractive. Perhaps we always begin with beauty? Or fascination? Maybe this is the same thing. It think it is in my case. The expression I painted…

Day #2 of 30 Days of Faces and Places in Color Well, I keep having the same conversation with myself: I should tell them, as a kind of disclaimer, that I know this is no good. I know what good is and I know that technically, this is not what…

What follows is personal, with digressions and possible morals to the story, but nothing conclusive. I lived in New York during 9/11, but I have never written about it. The Beauty of that September morning was memorable. The brightness of the world in the early fall when everything has the…

in under two minutes Three Things I Learned from Doing these doodle experiments 30 Days: 1) Showing up creates its own momentum 2) My opinion about what I am doing isn’t that important. Completing the work is far more important. 3) When you don’t…