I thought you’d be born
in Jerusalem.

I don’t blame you for that.

You could scatter the shoots across the world 
and they would die together, as one body.

Graphite’s lack of material complexity also feels honest. Since it’s a simple form of carbon, any mystery in a graphite work is created through process, and that feels like starting from a place of truth.

I see my paintings and drawings as invitations to encounter a lived environment slowly, fully, and reflectively.

our hearts labor at salvation
despite our honest efforts to resist

After watching him for a few measures’ time, I walk on. I have no interest in spying. I only look at the things that I am allowed to see from the sidewalk.

so efficiently do quail become creators
of quail like God filling the
desert floor with quail for his

children