Feeling first: What Ms. Matisse and the Fauves taught me about seeing

Each time I return to Matisse’s portrait at @sfmoma, it speaks a little differently. What once felt like rebellion now feels like clarity. In this piece, I follow the colors — viridian, alizarin crimson, ultramarine — not to recreate, but to ask new questions. About expression. About feeling before form. And about how seeing shifts when you do.