On moving on:

We all have to accept an L once in a while. It’s a struggle but as long as we have people together and everyone is sharing good energy, we’re building — on a personal level and the larger scheme of things as the world we want to live in. It’s a beautiful thing. Some of my images can seem haunting, but they’re masked by this crisp style and a soft-but-rich palette of colors that show these scary things in a different light.

My wife and I are moving right now, looking for a bigger home. And the house that I’m in is kind of like the house in the painting. I love this pad. It’s so cheap, it’s an old little spot we painted and fixed up. But it’s not conducive to us raising a family. It doesn’t have the amenities I would need for a baby. So, we’re going through that and these are the things I think about when I’m painting. Change, and needing to leave this place I fell in love with to go on this new journey. It’s scary but also beautiful. In the end, it’s all good. We keep marching forward.

I learn from the history of my family being incarcerated in the Japanese internment camps during World War II. They lost everything. They lost their homes, their businesses, their American sense of honor. For generations. A whole community thrown into these camps, dispersed out into the middle of nowhere. To see the resilience that my family had to come out of there, to rebuild, move forward, and grow, is a huge inspiration.

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