In graduate school, I started a family tradition of an annual camping trip with my mother and sister. In 2019, the three of us rented an exorbitantly expensive Jeep with a tent mounted on top and drove to Death Valley.
A healthcare institution can value art not because of explicit ties to molecular biology or anatomy but because art in itself has a role to play in bettering healthcare providers’ lives and the lives of their patients.
As I walked below the Golden Gate bridge along the chain-wire fence meant to keep me safe and out of the bridge-side slope, I looked up and saw this little cut out.
Unless you have a dog who takes you for daily walks around the block, you may not be getting outside as often since pandemic pandemonium struck. If that’s the case, here’s a dose of inspiration.
Like the salt in the ocean you can’t see until it’s dry, you are the rock that keeps us all together; the command with which you roam this earth makes me afraid, afraid not of getting in your way but helping you on your own.
Hong Kong. A beautiful city, but also one of unrest. I painted this for a friend who recently had an impactful trip there. He soaked in the richness of the culture but also witnessed first-hand the chaos in the riots.
