In 1984, I received an M.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. I have lived in Chicago since 1982. I have always found it both troubling and intriguing that, as a human being, I have the ability to ask questions that I do not have the ability to answer. Yet intriguing, too, in that perhaps these questions are their own answers.
Life becomes an act of faith.
These kinds of questions cannot be asked or answered with intellect alone, they require action. How I live with what I cannot know is part of what defines who I am. Even my attempt to avoid a question helps to define who I am. For this reason, I believe that these fundamental questions have great value and purpose. How we deal, or refuse to deal with them is who we are.