About Marc

Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha shares a powerful message: attachment to the self crushes our happiness. 

Chasing what you want, wanting others to see who you are, seeking an identity, projecting an identity, expecting the world to satisfy you– those are the causes of discontentment. 

Siddhartha preaches existential humility. A person is no different than a rock. We're made of the same atoms and both exist in time and space. The only differences are that people have a compulsion to change and control our environment... and that the rock lives much longer.

This perspective from Siddhartha is both challenging and freeing. 

It's challenging because it trivializes so much of what we hold important: career, money, identity, legacy, and community. These are only concepts that our collection of particles invented to more effectively achieve its aims.  

It's freeing because, if life isn't about any of those things, if a human is fundamentally no more valuable than a rock, life is valuable... because it just is. Like the rock, our value is our existence. Our ability to comprehend our existence, and to experience it, is the greatest gift.

This perspective has granted me endless happiness. It's allowed me to see every pain as an awe-inspiring part of the human experience. 

At the same time, deriving equal happiness from pain as from pleasure, from existence as from achievement, from solitude as from companionship, is a tall order. This site, and my art, is an attempt to explore the opposite of what I've learned and cherish from Siddhartha. I aim to seek, hone, and project my core identity. Through my art, I aim to unabashedly share my full self with you.

Thank you for joining me on this journey.