…can be a tough beast to slay. Opportunity can be the greatest burden at times. Once your goal is to climb one ladder, you reach the top and there is another ladder, (usually), you find that you want to rest and enjoy where you got. What you have is a better and better view and equally painful and further fall to endure if you should falter. So is the view you gained worth promised death to your career and achievements if you should risk going higher? Should I just stay at one level and enjoy where I am, how I am, what I am… now.

Confusing? Maybe. I am dealing with these very topics in my growth as a “painter” to a “muralist”. Still titles all the same. The view is great, yes,  but I want new challenges. My very bones crave the site of new landscapes and paintings to be made to reflect what I have seen. On the other hand, the total responsibility of going higher is daunting at times. How I get through those impossibles barriers is by simply not believing there is a barrier to deal with. My mental makes the tools to scale this problem. Not always do these tools work. So impromptu ideas are created. An adventure of sorts is what my inner art muse seeks. So my experience as a muralist has had a real crazy ride so far. I have enjoyed most of it. MOST of it.

In a nutshell? I am ready to climb the next ladder.