“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

“Mountains and Rivers” ,Paint on glass Nguyen Van Hhanh, Danang Fine Arts Museum Mist in the landscape is a very real part of travel in SouthEast Asia. Obscuring morning sea mists, a persistent haze over the sky throughout the day, and a slowly enveloping evening cloud over the mountains. All of this has been captured… Read more

“It would be perfect, the absolutely perfect mechanical pencil…but we will never see it…” Brad Dowdy, The Penaddict , 2022 I bet you have never noticed, but when you write with a pencil, you are continually rotating it to keep a constant, sharp graphite tip on the page. It is subconscious, we all do it.… Read more