On this day of January 26th, 1964, 5:36 Sunday morning, weighing 6lbs 7oz, with black hair, brown eyes, of Chinese race at United Hospital in Port Chester, NY, a boy Todd Ernest Lim was born. (In German that might translate as “dead honest man”)Born an Aquarius in the age of Aquarius.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20 – Feb 18)
“Your job is to find the holy in the mundane, and failing that, to create the holy in the mundane. - To feel the awe and reverence while you’re in the midst of the everyday routine. Penetrate the deeper layer as you seek out the divine beauty that gently shocks you into a state of heightened awareness.”

Taken from last week’s horoscope, these are not my words, nor are the subject matters or the materials I choose for my artwork. They become my ideal, that which I adopt my ideas from and recycle, from common sense and courtesy. So as not to take life for granted, but to appreciate what went before me, what I have, and what I seek to discover. In doing so, to strive for perfection knowing it is abstract and unattainable, as memories are, as loss is. But to do my best and fail and keep doing what I can, with what I have, where I am. To serve as a catalyst of remembrances past with the present. To turn meaningless to meaning, and useless to useful. Not to be ahead of the times, but to turn time on its head.

Smithsonian American Art Museum Click here to view piece
"The Yellow Race" 1993 Permanent collection.

The Discovery Museum
Bridgeport CT "35th Annual Barnum Juried Exhibition" Jurors: Richard Klein, Director of Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT / James Rondeau, Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art, Wadsworth Antheneum, Hartford, CT

Katonah Museum, Katonah NY
"Tri-State Juried Exhibition" Jurors: Robert Storr, Curator of Museum of Modern Art, New York City

Stamford Museum & Nature Center
"25th Annual Connecticut Art Competition" Juror: Eugenie Tsai, Curator of Whitney Museum, Stamford, CT. Award: Best Sculpture.

The John Slade Ely House, New Haven CT
"Surrealist Affinities" Group Show

The Stamford Historical Society, Stamford CT
"The 14th Annual Faber Birren Color Show" Juror: Clare Bell, Curator of the Guggenheim Museum, New York City

The Hurlbutt Gallery, Greenwich CT
"76th Annual Juried Exhibition" Juror: Martha Scott, Curator of Education, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT. Award: Jean Cobean Award for Sculpture.

Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan CT
"45th Annual Art of the Northeast, USA" Juror: Diane Waldman, Deputy Director, Senior Curator of the Guggenheim Museum, New York City. Award: Silvermine Community Association Award.

The Carriage Barn Arts Center, New Canaan CT
"Spectrum 1994 Juried Exhibition" Juror: Ida Ely Rubin, Art Critic.

SAGA: Sociery of American Graphic Artist, New York City
"65th National Print Exhibition" Jurors: Carol Ulin, Director of Fine Art Prints, The Library of Congress. Linda Kramer, Curator of Drawing and Prints, Brooklyn Museum, NY. Award: Vera Listz Purchase Award - 12 prints in museum collections.

The Alternative Museum, New York City
"1993 National Showcase Exhibition"

Agora Gallery, New York City
"Soho International Competition" Jurors, Leonore Scendo, Director or "Art View" Janet Kulesch, Senior Program Association for Pollock-Krasner Foundation.