We are here to know. And when we don't, we spend a lifetime looking for answers. When we do, we spend a lifetime creating with them.
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THE THEORY
From Root To Fruit
BELONG. BECOME. BUILD.
A baby arrives in the world driven by curiosity, with a life destined to create. We are that baby, from root to fruit. Most people waste days, months, years, decades, and lifetimes trying to solve the world's problems and their own.
I’m interested in resolving the only problem a baby has: Make someone care about them so they can survive. What if human beings spend their lives trying to prove what they already know is true?
That question became The Art of Knowing. A trilogy of self-actualization. Three ways of knowing ourselves, knowing, and the world.
One shared destiny.
THE PROOF IS IN THE BABY
If you really want to know who you are, where you come from, and the root of your belonging, take a look at any baby. A human baby arrives with everything it needs to become what it is capable of becoming, born into a motherly nature that speaks through color, beauty, harmony, patterns, symbols, actions, and reactions—a home that recycles all life on earth, from fertility to fecundity to mortality. This is our biological baggage, what some call karma. Everyone begins life with it. The hands that rock the cradle rule the world.
We are those hands.
There are 8 billion people on this planet because we are wired to meet a baby's needs. When those needs are not met, a baby closes its eyes and screams. It cannot speak or explain what is wrong because it knows nothing yet. Lucky for the baby, the chances are it will survive because these are the same needs everyone else has. No one can stand the suffering of a miserable baby for very long. Even if it is not yours, you will find a way to ease its discomfort by meeting its needs.
The moment those needs are met, the baby feels safe and protected. It belongs.
It opens its eyes. It can hear. It begins to use its mouth for sound. It begins to learn language. It begins to thrive. It becomes. And eventually, it builds.
How do you know it is thriving? A happy baby is a curious baby. This is our biological baggage.
We are born to be as curious as a baby. To belong. To become. To build. To know.
And when we don't, to want to know.
THE TRILOGY
One Shared Destiny
Three ways of knowing ourselves, others, and the world.
BELONGING
Knowing Through Color
Nature comes in colors for a reason: to teach us that the world we are born into is not only bountiful, but beautiful. Color is how Mother Nature makes us fall in love with life—and why coloring is the first thing we teach children to do. It is often a child’s first experience of making something they feel proud of, which quietly builds confidence and ownership—a foreshadowing of what they’ll need to thrive and survive: the confidence to create beauty of their own.
A work I call Color Baggage.
BECOMING
Knowing Through Care
Our needs are met by others for years before we can meet them on our own. That’s how we learn that the world cares, and that we are worthy of being cared for. This is our biological baggage. When we believe otherwise, we are as miserable as a helpless baby. Believing people should know better when they don’t—and chalking it up to not caring—is at the root of every human conflict today.
A happy, curious baby expects to grow up, belong, and become part of a world where adults are capable of overcoming misery quickly by caring, meeting needs, restoring happiness, encouraging curiosity, and building a life full of possibility—together.
A work I call Karma Physics.
BUILDING
Knowing Through Language
Every living thing creates life. Every living thing dies. But only humans can choose what kind of life they create, from root to fruit. Words are the building material that bridge biology, belonging, and becoming into shared meaning. Language turns knowing into creation. Different words create different worlds. We are destined to live life as curious as a baby and fulfill our fecundity—the capacity to create abundant new life. Through distinction, understanding, and clarity, we transform ideas into dreams, and dreams into reality. Creation is the fullest expression of becoming. It is destiny.
A work I call Apple Orange Wisdom.