Such a background made it easy for me to seek admission with Columbia Pacific University. However, the goal for continued education was different form that for the Union. Although a solid theoretical understanding was fostered on aesthetic perception and a personal philosophy of art was adopted, my actual artwork had not yet been developed to a professional level. Creative potential needs time to be developed. Insight and inspiration cannot be crammed into a course.
Artists find it hard to stick to a narrow course of work.
We dabble with everything, seeing an aesthetic side to anything in life. The aesthetic stimulus can become overwhelming, especially when one works with the bright lights of the computer monitor. Therefore, intervals of distancing from one's studio work become important. These seemingly unfruitful moments not only rest the artist's eye and mind but serve as periods of unconscious incubation of new visual ideas and digestion of former visual works prior to the studio lay-off. Since the inaugural year of enrollment, I have been involved full-time in the studio as a practicing artist seeking to mature his work.