It’s nice to get got! Everyone wants to be understood. To be seen. To be heard. To matter. With my art I feel the same way, most people get me and my message and feel connected to a certain piece that they know belongs to them. It’s a wonderful feeling as an artist to put all the love and passion into a piece of creation and have someone receive it completely! This reminds me of a story that happened recently. I was dropping off some art at one of my galleries and there was a man in the process of buying one of my large pieces. The Gallery owner says, “You are in luck, the artist is right here and you can meet her.” I said hello and shook his hand and the first thing he says to me is, “convince me to buy your piece,” as he’s holding his credit card in his hand tapping it on the counter. My thought was, he must want to hear about the back story of the piece or the process of how it’s made or of my philosophy of my work. So I begin telling him...