“Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with golden lacquer. It teaches us to embrace damage and flaws.” — ManGill. For most of my adult life I have helped repair the sick. Many had their lives suddenly shattered and altered forever. It was a job at which I was quite good. Recently, the… Read more

“Like comparing a scalpel to a hatchet…’ Hugh Howey I have a simple and foolproof way to tell is someone is a surgeon, or more precisely not a surgeon. If they see the above photo and the word tweezers is heard in any form, they are absolutely not a surgeon. The Oxford English Dictionary defines… Read more

“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see…” Edward Degas The Paris Salon, the New York Armoury, the London Royal Academy Exhibition and the Vienna Kunstlerhaus were legendary art exhibitions of the 19th century. In reality they were more about competition than exhibition. Artists fought tooth and nail to have their… Read more