Detail from A Return to Joy 14 Years ago I began a series called A Return to Joy. At the time, I knew instinctively that it was the right name, but I didn't yet understand why. I thought I was painting toward something I hoped to find. Now I wonder if I was painting toward something I had forgotten. Over the past several years, life has initiated me in ways I never could have imagined. The Lahaina fires took 169 pieces of my artwork. Earthquakes in Bangkok shook and cracked t