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(Part 2: Further exploration on this topic.) I’ve been running the TV show “Numb3rs” in the background for a little noise while I paint. Somewhere back in season two, while painting a city scene canvas, episode seven popped up and caught my eye. In it, the character Charlie (a mathematician whiz who helps the FBI) …

(Part 1: Initial exploration on this topic.) Maybe the whole point isn’t about catching the fish, but that having your head underwater for so long that it forces you to come up for air and re-evaluate. The thought has come to me — never mind the path it took to get here — that I …

Back when I worked in a screenprinting/T-shirt shop, I made myself a T-shirt with a cartoon pig and a caption that read “fascist pig” beneath it. I thought it was funny. I wore the shirt today. While depositing a check at the bank, the very nice teller smiled as she looked at my shirt. “Oh!” …

It’s not that I miss the computer, the TV, the electronic gadgets — the background noise. The thing that bothered me the most about losing power (for just one day, mind you, so minor!) was that food in my refrigerator and freezer would be wasted, and that I had design and computer jobs to get …

The main room of my apartment is the living room, office, library, and art studio, all in one. Out of respect for my landlord, I try not to put nails in the wall and so consequently, I have painted canvases propped up on empty easels, and every shelf, chair and bookcase. The art on my …