Most of the time, people look at a piece of art online when it is just a few blocks from their house. Changing the way you walk home everyday fills life with surprises.

I've been around a long time, and life still has a whole lot of surprises for me.

Hallucinatory - that's just the way everyday life is, in Colombia. All the time, you say to yourself, did I just see that?

Popular art is normally decried as vulgar by the cultivated people of its time; then it loses favor with its original audience as a new generation grows up; then it begins to merge into the softer lighting of ''quaint,'' and cultivated people become interested in it, and finally it begins to take on the archaic dignity of the primitive.

Most people come because they want to have a home-cooked meal but they don't have time to prepare it, make it and clean it up.

The Pulitzer is a crapshoot. Your piece has to hit a few people the right way at the right moment.