This past Sunday, I gave an artist talk at Chandler Gallery in Mill Valley for a two-person exhibition of new paintings with painter Greta Waller.

This episode is a stream-of-consciousness reflection that moves through a spectrum of people, places, and ideas — including David Leibovitz, the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, dreams, and Carl Jung — alongside the events leading up to the talk, the conversation itself, and how it’s all settling in my mind afterward.