Clis 10 — Road Less Travelled – FESCH.TV

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I discovered that when things went south, when things went pear-shaped, if I retreated to the forest with my sketchpad and tried to make sense of the chaos in the forest where waterfall and lizards and geckos and trees and leaves… If I drew or painted that in my sketchbook, they calmed me. Okay. Now I can deal with these issues.

So I had a ton of art classes. And I was just following my muse. 12 hours a day. I’d get up, breakfast, go to school, come back at 10 o’clock, eat something, go to bed, and repeat. I was just doing massive amounts of airbrush painting, Chinese painting, calligraphy, fashion model design, painting, acrylics, oil, whatever.

And then I saw this program at San Jose State to study Chinese painting, calligraphy, seal carving, art history, and eventually language in Taipei, Taiwan. And I thought that’s kind of cool.

But around the same time, Peace Corps had offered me a job to go to Marrakesh Morocco for two years to run a home for children with polio. And that was pretty inviting to be honest. But it was the fork in the road in my life because it really came down to, Peace Corps, maybe security, whatever you want to say it was, or art. What do you want to do?

And I said to myself, don’t be afraid to give up what you have for what you might become. And my life got so big because I let go of that little nugget. I think that led me to the road less traveled. And I’ve been on that road ever since.

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