“True belonging is born of relationships not only to one another but to a place of shared responsibilities and benefits. We love not so much what we have acquired as what we have made and whom…
“We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.” ~ Dostoevsky ~~~~~~~ How do we get from there to…
ABOVE THE MOSEL VALLEY “Off in the distance, there are trees, and then nothing. The tall, lean winemaker and I are walking towards those trees, beyond which the world drops away. When I first met him,…
“Eventually everything connects ~ people, ideas, objects…the quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.” ~ Charles and Ray Eames My first gig out of college was as a Hilla Rebay intern at…
“Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.” ~oscar wilde ~~~~~~~ I love color, and I love the absence of color even more. I…
“Give ’em what they never knew they wanted.” ~Diana Vreeland The challenge of being a new mom is not just figuring out how to care for a newborn baby, but what to do with your time,…
“Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than a moving plane, ship or train.There is an almost quaint correlation between what is in front of our eyes and the…
“What a caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.” ~ Richard Bach I love the process of transformation. I’ve been consumed by it over the past decade ~ both academically and…
“Life is like a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.” ~ Albert Einstein I came to Raj through his name. Someone mentioned it, and it was mentioned again, and then again. And my…
“I know there is no straight road No straight road in this world Only a giant labyrinth Of intersecting crossroads” ~Gabriel Garcia Lorca I met Angelo on a boat in the Bay. It was the day…
“The alchemy of good curating amounts to this: Sometimes, placing one work of art near another makes one plus one equal three. Two artworks arranged alchemically leave each intact, transform both, and create a third thing.”…
“Walking with a loaded rifle in an unfamiliar forest bristling with the signs of your prey is thrilling. It embarrasses me to write that, but it is true. I am not by nature much of a…
