Something I couldn’t stop thinking about from my conversation with rafa esparza is that art is truly healing. Sometimes it’s hard to evaluate and measure the impact. There is no real data on the visualization of artworks, no analytics to decipher or figures to calculate that explain or reason significance. Art is entirely about how it makes people feel—or, at least, it should be. All of the other numbers we attach to it—price lists and auctions, acquisitions and exhibitions—are only indicators of the fact that it made someone, somewhere, feel something. Esparza’s art feels like the essence of this notion. Before anything else, his sense of feeling is what drives his practice. It is why he has numerous group exhibitions—to…