I've recently relocated to the Pacific North West in general, and the Portland Metro area, specifically. More specifically, to a spare bedroom at one of my high school buddies' parents' house in a rural suburb of Portland.Life has been full of turbulent change- some of it good if not a bit frustrating. New city, new school, new friends, new job, new goals, new projects, new aspirations. New, new, more fucking new. All of which is exciting, to say the least, but not super conducive to making art or being sane.Fortunately, via the forced circumstance of a 7 hour figure painting class with a brilliant instructor at the community college, I've...