Thoughtful conversations with the people of Maine

I realized the one thing I didn't have access to in my high school was art history education. My parents loved going to museums. I'm from Toledo, Ohio. We have a fantastic museum, Toledo Museum of Art. So I spent a lot of time there as a child and a teen and went to every museum I could traveling.

The other interesting thing about reflections is the reflection sees things you don't. Particularly if you look at a dock and a reflection of it, you'll see the underside of the dock and the reflection. You will not see that from where you're standing.

My mom said a very cool thing to me that I never forgot. In fact, I wrote a song about it. She said, doesn't matter the mood, you go when you go into your studio, when you come out, you'll feel better. Which is kind of like saying, don't be dependent on a good mood to paint.