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I have been painting outdoors for six years now, and I have assisted in mural projects, so I'm used to working in public spaces, but painting a public art commission on my own is a new thing for me. I love talking to people who are curious about plein air, and meeting people from all over the globe - this has become one of my favorite aspects of painting outdoors. But working on a permanent fixture, every day, in a small neighborhood, is quite another experience. [...]

   "That which is destroyed in a person during conscious work brings new life.  Creativity comes through death, as the death wish simultaneously becomes the wish to be reborn.  You must be destroyed in the process of being reborn." -Rudi I go through periods of time when I'm just downright tired of being human.  As the alarm pulls me out of my dreams in the morning, I groan, wishing I could stay in that dream world forever.  Meanness, rudeness and indifference stab like a knife, and I feel myself choosing between sad defeat and angry retaliation. [...]

In the threshold of imagination, old injuries whiz off into the bright sun, and things I thought were set in stone become an exhalation. Cells regenerate, beliefs open up, the world I built upon fear is a passing memory. In the threshold of my imagination, there is nothing left to do but love. [...]