Olympic Agora 2020-2021
I was extremely honored to be chosen as an artist for the first-ever Olympic Agora commemorating the cultural aspect of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. Orchestrated by the Olympic Foundation for Culture and Heritage (OFCH), the program took place from 1 July to 15 August 2021 throughout Tokyo’s historic Nihonbashi district. The Olympic Agora featured […]
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Artist-in-Residence
Backpacking alone overland by bus and train through China, Tibet, Nepal, India and Pakistan for 16 months with a total monthly spend of $100 was possible in the 1980’s. Noodles and naan were inexpensive and sleeping in train or bus stations was free. Carving a line through Asia, I managed to do a lot with […]
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Rebooting in the Empty Spaces
My freshman year at Franklin & Marshall College challenged me to think more deeply about life. Philosophy 101 was no exception. After much procrastination, the hypothesis I set out to prove was that, “events that don’t happen in our lives affect us just as much as incidents that do happen to us.” Okay, maybe I […]
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Monsoons and Martians
In Asia, the monsoon rains arrive with vengeance, pummeling the earth and all life on it. Like a fire hose, the water douses everything and there is no escaping it. Venturing out in these rains has its merits though. Immediately I feel a comradely with fellow travelers who are also moving about dodging massive raindrops. […]
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Understand My Silence
As a freshman in college, I lived in an on campus dorm at Franklin & Marshal College in conservative Lancaster Pennsylvania. Though we boasted one of the nation’s largest shopping malls, just outside of town was a sizable Amish community where open horse drawn buggies were the main means of transportation. It was a quiet […]
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I’d Rather be Strong than Perfect
As the resident artist at One & Only Reethi Rah in the Maldives, one of the world’s most exclusive and expensive resorts, I meet many kinds of people. Most are well to do and have most everything money can buy. One day in my studio, a few boys in their early teens (looking like they […]
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ArtGoGo Artistic Ocean Voyage 2016
Taking to the high seas, one never knows just what to expect. The recent typhoons, which had devastated China, had just passed and our boat the Sapphire Princess slipped into the sea, leaving Shanghai for Cheju Island Korea. Onboard were 7 artists brought together by the founder of the new art platform, ArtGoGo. Our master […]
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Burning Man, Nevada USA, 2015
Through observation, we concluded that naked men marching the Playa are always alone. But this was not why or how our tribe of eight committed to taking the plunge into the sands of the Nevada dessert. Last year, throwing doubts (some spouses) and caution to the wind, ‘Angie and the Argonauts’ hunkered down to […]
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The Wimbledon of Painting, 2015
For a month this summer I resided at the Cumberland Hotel across from Marble Arch in the center of London. My purpose there was to create a large mural in busy hotel lobby. To inform the painting, I spent several days touring the city with my sketchbook and worked up 100 black and white drawings […]
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