I am an oil painter, beekeeper, builder, tree grafter, sculptor, writer & musician. Painting for me eats double-exposed images with a camera while spilling mustard on the sidewalk and carving your name in a block of ice and licking the sweat off your lover's thigh and tasting fresh fruit after a fast and singing into a well and dancing all night and going into a ceremony and mopping and playing the flute, and smashing rocks together to make rhythms to greet the Dali Lama, finding a sunny sleepy spot in the grass, crushing your toe with a dropped rock, the dust gathering on house plants, hummingbirds trapped in skylights, driving and throat singing… bouncing harmonics off of the windshield, singing into a looping machine, sex in the late morning with the sun coming in through the leaves of the big leaf maple casting handprint shadows on skin, chasing chickens through the yard, swinging in the hammock and inventing things to make living easier and less destructive. Art swallows it all.