I’m always curious about what inspires and sparks an artist. Personally, I find it hard not to be provoked by what’s going on in the world, by events both frightening and awe-inspiring. Recently we’ve heard a lot of North Korean saber rattling, bellowing that reaching our shores with a nuclear weapon is imminent. This feels personal for me, not only as a west coaster but because I learned last fall that, while I was practicing duck-and-cover under my little desk, my engineer