Personal
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Embracing Life Through Core Principles
My Journey and Vision My life’s journey is shaped by some fundamental principles that influence my decisions, actions, and relationships, paving a path filled with purpose, truth, and fulfillment. These core pillars – consistency, authenticity, gentleness, and mindfulness – define who I am, guiding my interactions and aspirations. Consistency Consistency isn’t just about routine; it’s…
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Balancing Art, Technology, and Humanity
In December 2007, as a young designer working in the book publishing industry, I coined a term that would come to define my approach to technology: technourishment. Back then, the concept was simple (perhaps naively so) – it was about the act of nourishing technology, or the state of being nourished by technology. My iPod,…
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Embracing My Strengths
A Journey in Art and Technology As an artist and a technologist, my life has always been a blend of vision, curiosity, and action. I had the opportunity to explore my strengths through the CliftonStrengths assessment, and it was a enlightening. The assessment highlighted my top strengths: Futuristic, Learner, Relator, Activator, and Arranger. Let’s explore…
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Making Up Words
I enjoy making up new words every now and then. The process of bringing two words together to create a new one is called “portmanteau.” A portmanteau is a linguistic blend of words in which parts of multiple words, or their sounds, and their meanings are combined into a new word. A famous example is…
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Put Yourself First
Artists, it’s okay to put yourself first. Selflessness sounds good in theory, but too much in practice can be detrimental to your growth. Finding the right balance is crucial to your personal success. My dad used to remind me that you can’t take care of others if you don’t take care of yourself first. And…
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Step Into The Fear
One morning I had a flash of inspiration. I realized that my worst regrets and best memories were directly connected to how I reacted to fear. When I was paralyzed by a fear of failure, fear of the unknown, or fear of making the wrong choice, I would come to regret it. Alternatively, when I…
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My Meditation Practice
I’ve had a meditation practice for over 20 years. Here are three techniques I’ve used for steadying my mind when it’s fatigued, off-center, and unfocused. Personally, I find that the hardest time to choose meditation as a tool is when I need it the most. And over the last 20-something years, this has been my…
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Art as Therapy
My Interview with Makersplace I’ve been open about the fact that I see therapists and coaches for the mental health benefits. I’ve also been open about the fact that what led me to finding cryptoart in 2018 was that I was rediscovering the healing powers of art for myself. In fact my Brutalist Mannequin series and the…
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My Inner Critic
It’s too late in the day… …and I’ve yet to submit the post. And my inner critic is saying that I’m not a good writer right now because I don’t have the piece I thought I was going to send out today ready to go. However, the main reason it’s not ready is that I’m…
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My Favorite Day of the Week
Sundays I’m Italian American. And for as long as I can remember we would have “Family Dinner” every Sunday. This tradition was going on long before I was ever born. And that’s probably not an uncommon tradition for some of you reading this I’d guess. In my family, my mom and her three sisters are…