It’s been an excellent and fairly lazy Sunday.

Reading. A long and beautiful walk. Excellent food. A couple of hours watching Succession on Netflix.

Always in the background though, behind the day-to-day activity, my mind/heart/gut is working on the very necessary re-imagining of what my life, art, business is going to look like now in this suddenly-changed world of ours.

For me, perhaps more than most, due to the very personal nature of my artwork and the fact I earn 100% of my income from it, that also means a close examination of who I am, of who I want to be going forward, of who I think it is possible to be.

Right now, like all of us on the planet, I have no firm ideas of what the shape of my work/life/self will be in the next few months. However, it’s my job, over the next few weeks, to find out.

I’m approaching the task of this re-imagining of work/life/self exactly like I’ve approached the creation of any exhibition I’ve made in the last thirty years:

Listen with my heart and gut to what I feel is the right direction to go in,

back that up with sound planning,

execute those plans to the very best of my ability,

show the result to the world,

see where the chips land.

Succeed or fail.

Take a breath.

Start the process all over again.

One foot in front of the other.

One step at a time.

I’m not implying for a second this process is easy. Despite the fact I’ve done this for thirty years, it’s still scary as fck. Just because I’ve walked this tightrope for three decades doesn’t make it any less frightening to putting my self on the line, to push myself to my limit in order to explore new territory. Especially now that there’s way more at stake than usual. It’s not only my heart and artistic ego that’s on the line this time. It’s also my economic future.

But you know what, I am most def up for this re-imagining challenge. Like so many artists, I’m good when my back’s against the wall, and the pressure is on to create something out of nothing.

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[Re-imagining 2020 is available as a limited edition studioprint]