When I first started experimenting with digital tools, everything felt raw, clunky, and full of friction ,which, ironically, was part of the magic. There was a kind of wild west energy to it. No one had a roadmap. You had to improvise workflows and coax beauty out of machines that weren’t really designed for art. What’s surprised me most is how much has been automated, how accessible, intuitive, and even seductive these tools have become. That’s a gift, but also a challenge. Some of the struggle used to shape the soul of the work. Now the danger is in over-polishing, or letting the machine’s fluency flatten the human fingerprints. Staying conscious in that balance between what tech can do and what the art should express has become more critical than ever.

Absolutely. Every innovation costs something. There’s an invisible tax that comes with always living on the frontier it’s isolation, obsession, and sometimes burnout. The public sees the projections, the spectacle, the transcendence, but often misses the toll it takes on the nervous system. For me, the darkest moments have come not from creative blocks, but from success itself, when the work breaks through but my inner world hasn’t caught up. The more you channel the mythic, the more you risk losing touch with the mundane but sacred realities of health, family, and presence. It’s an ongoing practice to not let innovation eclipse integration.

Boom has always been a spiritual home for my work. There’s a rare alchemy in that space, visionary art, nature, movement, ritual, and community all converging. Dharma Dragon was born in that spirit, as a kind of guardian, half cosmic, half terrestrial. With Dancing Dharma, I wanted to explore duality and harmony: the twin dragons represent masculine and feminine energies, chaos and order, creation and destruction locked in a perpetual flow. The piece is not just a sequel, it’s a mirror. A reminder that evolution isn’t linear; it spirals. Working with Boom over the years has allowed me to spiral deeper, to evolve the mythos in public, with a community that values both beauty and consciousness.