[Image: Metropolitan Museum of Art – Rooftop, full-scale plaster representation, Eric J. Henderson holding 3000-year old hippopotamus head dated to 1390–1352 B.C. in “Theater of Disappearance” – a site-specific installation by Argentinian artist Adrián Villar Rojas, commissioned for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden in 2017. This project radically reenvisioned the museum’s role and the presentation of its collection, blending art history, technology, and contemporary commentary into an immersive, surreal environment]

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I am an artist – whether with a 1950 Kodak Brownie Hawkeye or crafting communications for world-leading civil society organizations such as the NBA Players’ Union or Digital Impact.io or… whoever. Well, not quite “whoever.”

The art is in the worldview.

I strongly believe that the requirements for thinking through and executing to painful detail on intractable problems (and simple ones, too) not only include documented skills and a track record to show for it, but also an intentionally developed experience in multiple disciplines. A useful worldview is the result.

So, I have made it a point to live in as many universes as possible, and then to unite them in one theme: to make life better where I can.

That’s “why.”

Writing, Photography, and Consulting for the world’s leading social sector organizations all fall under using whatever tool I find in the shed to build a better human conversation.

The wonder of that wander means (in the following stream of consciousness) that I have…

Been selected as featured subject (above, cast in plaster) for Adrián Villar Rojas’ April – October 2017 exhibition for the Met Museum rooftop Garden, Theater of Disappearance; Contributed a thought on the subject of patience that the Financial Times’ FT Weekend might just have agreed with; Co-founded StratagemEntertainment, there drafting all marketing communications, financial and creative dealflow documentation en route to closing an $800 million slate deal, the largest of

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its kind with the China Film Group -See Variety Magazine; Created works for the BMW Guggenheim Lab in Fine Art Photography and Essays; Participated as cast member and interpreter for Tino Seghal’s record-breaking exhibition, This Progress at the Guggenheim Museum; Represented Asafa Powell (World Record Holder for most sub-10 100m) at the World Championships in Osaka, Japan; Currently developed messaging and brand strategy for the NBPA Foundation – the charitable arm of the union of professional basketball players; Interviewed over 500 social sector CEOs, Executive Directors and Creators… then used that content to edit an industry standard: Making Sense of Data and Information in the Social Sector; Shot two SuperBowls with a 1950 Kodak Brownie Hawkeye – Listen to where all that started here on NYC’s NPR Station WNYC; Lived in Barcelona and Sevilla for a couple of years …worn a white robe and hood while marching in Semana Santa with one of the oldest cofradías in Mallorca – yes, get that visual because I’ll never digitize the photo – looks kinda like this, though... you get the picture; Clocked three hours straight on a treadmill suspended over Times Square as a live ad for a pain reliever …I didn’t use it; Been the Featured Artist at Russell Simmons’ Art For Life; Read a few books that have changed my life in various ways, e.g. Sit Walk Stand, Mere Christianity, Proofs & Refutations, Foucault’s Pendulum; Led DigitalImpact/MarketsForGood as its first Curator/Editor; Advised on Brazilian programming for streaming tv and fielded over 5000 phone calls in Portuguese at Dish Networks – just to make absolutely sure that while I keep on learning, they ain’t lying when they say, “Oi! Esse cara tem sotaque sim. Mas fala bem!”; And, for good measure, got published in the Financial Times a second time in two weeks: Millions of Children Denied Access to Sport; Dropped a personal best 2:54 marathon; Translated a press conference from Catalan and Spanish to English on the fly at El Corte Ingles; Stunted on the pages of GQ, Elle Decor and your In-Flight magazine in a global campaign featuring my photography for Bombay Sapphire’s “There’s Something Inside” campaign; Written for Huffington Post, Callaloo Journal, AdAge and others – still do; Taught photography in Brasil (Nova Holanda, Complexo da Maré), France (Paris), Morocco (Rabat/Salé); delivered a paper at Oxford University (“How to Be Visual in a Visual Age”); played rugby for two years and two concussions and met mighty good people; Caught 20 crappie on my best day – not a great day for a crappie fisherman, but a great day for dinner; Gone to school at Texas A&M, ESADE, and Thunderbird – wrangling an MBA from the last one; Founded and played in the world’s first outdoor! winter pro-am basketball tournament, ICEBALL 3-on-3 & partnered in 2016 with Adidas (see VIDEO) for a Special “Laboratory Edition”; Spent over 25 years in Marketing, Finance, and Communications in posts with GE, Pepsi-Cola, Xerox, Citigroup; Determined to never live a normal life – however I define that, knowing that I will always be somebody’s unicorn and another person’s white bread…well, wheat bread.

Also… I am grateful to Black Enterprise Magazine for this feature.

And I’m not finished.

Epilogue: In case you actually read this far… This book changed my life by providing a massively useful framework for judging any kind of proposition or just thinking through a problem. Hint: “You can’t do that. It won’t work.” My response: “Hmmm… Is that a local or global counterexample?” The decision tree proceeds from there. Check the book here below. 🙂

So… You meet people. You study the mission to find out if the theme fits. If so, You Go Build Things.