Best advice you’ve been given • If you are not completely in love with the work you are doing, then you are doing the wrong work.

Goals/Aspirations • I recently sat with an elderly artist the day before he passed. I would like to do as he did, make it all the way to the end of life and still be utterly engaged in my work.

Favorite artist • Gerhard Richter, Richard Diebenkorn, Mark Rothko, Richard Tuttle, Agnes Martin, Joan Mitchell, Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Ken Price, among others.

What are you reading • The Flamethrowers, by Rachel Kushner

Hope to learn how to • Navigate a hot air balloon

You spend a lot of time thinking about • The non-duality of life and the profound difficulty we humans have in understanding that everything is connected.

Favorite musical artist • Jason Moran, jazz musician extraordinaire

What do you do when not creating art • Reading, theater, conversation, wisdom traditions, trekking, biking