It’s true I probably chose the job I did because of who my dad is. He taught me that anything was possible—in fact, I reached for the impossible because of how he sees the world. But how I do what I do—the work ethic and the technique and the professionalism and the drive—that’s from my mother. So, my mother’s drive to educate me, mixed with my dad’s endless imagination, encoded within me the artist that I would become. Today, well-researched magical realism is my job. And I feel blessed to love what I do. But even before it was my occupational calling, the ability to live in my imagination
...more
