Tomorrow is a very big day for me. It marks the end of an division between two lives: art and academia. Perhaps it is best understood as a marriage of the two. It is my academic background, after all, that prepares me best for my return to the arts.

I imagine that I will have my doubts. And I imagine that the battle will never really stop. But I am as certain about this unsettled engine inside of me as I am of the existence of my own two hands.

Thank you to my family and friends for helping me see that I need to change directions.