Do you break the rules?

Or Play by the rules

“Before I knew I could break the rules, I stood inside them.”— early sketch from the edge of becoming

As a child, were you the rule-follower or the rebel?

Believe it or not, I played by the rules — mostly to keep my parents happy. I didn’t question them much at the time. But now, with that sharp 20/20 hindsight, I wish I’d paused to ask why those rules we…