05/12/2026
I was recently blessed with reading Jostein Gaarder’s The Solitaire Mystery, and it became the heartbeat of my spring semester in Jan Harrell’s enameling class at the Glassell School of Art.
I kept returning to the Joker—a character searching for the meaning of existence, trying to understand who he is and why he’s here.
And the more I worked, the more I wondered… isn’t he a bit like you and me?
(With a quiet nod to “Nowhere Man” by the Beatles)