Top 3 dead artists?

Yves Klein, Kazimir Malevich, and Ana Mendieta. Each of them understood art as a force larger than the object itself — something elemental, immaterial, and transformative. Their work continues to expand consciousness long after their physical lives ended.

Most valuable lesson learned in art school?

Discipline. The understanding that inspiration is not enough. You must return to the work every day and allow the work itself to teach you.

Most valuable lesson you didn’t learn in art school?

How to trust intuition over consensus. Some of the most important works emerge before language can explain them, and often before anyone else understands them.

Any hard-won art world lessons?

Protect the integrity of your vision. The art world moves through trends, markets, and personalities, but the work has to survive beyond all of that. Longevity comes from remaining connected to something real and necessary within yourself.

What is the most beautiful thing in the world?

Consciousness awakening to itself through nature. Standing in the desert at dawn, looking into the night sky, feeling suddenly connected to something infinite — that, to me, is beauty.

What is your greatest extravagance?

Time. Time to think, to wander, to work slowly, to be fully present in the landscape without interruption.

Why are you here?

To create moments of expanded perception. To remind people that we are not separate from the cosmos, but part of an immense interconnected field of existence.

What conspiracy theories do you believe in?

I’m less interested in conspiracy theories than in the mysteries we still don’t understand. Human consciousness, the intelligence of nature, the possibility that the universe is far more interconnected than we currently perceive — these feel more compelling to me than any manufactured narrative.