Yeah, yeah, yeah… you can see what I draw - but do you read what I write? Often when I meet people in the art industry and tell them I have a blog, they get a little surprised. “A blog? Do people even do that anymore?” I honestly have no idea. But I do. And the reason is simple: I’m not just a visual artist - I’ve got things to say. When I first started my website, I wanted it to function like a business card. If I happened to meet someone and wanted to quickly present my portfolio,...

There are moments when being alive feels almost excessive. Not overwhelming in a negative sense, but abundant, as if too many ideas, achievements, and signals are arriving at once. Science, art, sport, and culture no longer take turns. They overlap. They echo each other. A single year can contain breakthroughs that would once have defined entire generations. Sometimes it feels impossible to choose a starting point. That sensation of having too much to hold might be one of the most accurate...

On the morning of August 22, 1911, a Louvre employee walked up to the spot where the Mona Lisa should have hung - and found only four empty hooks. At first he assumed someone had taken it down for photography. Within an hour, the museum was locked down and Paris was in panic. Ironically, the world had never cared much about the Mona Lisa until the moment she vanished. Before the Heist: A Quiet Life in the Louvre Leonardo da Vinci brought the painting to France himself in the early 1500s while...