Mark Collins launches our regular Creative Insights section with a video on his, um, adventures making furniture from repurposed basketball court boards. His “Plato, Basketball, and Your Life Work” explores vision, revision, and purpose as, well, often something of a poke in the eye. Literally. “Varnish,” Collins tells us, as he considers how we build lives that reflect the light of our experience unto others, “is nothing but a giddy lie.” You’ll want safety goggles for this foray from the wilderness into something that might be “civilization.” Or not.

Plato, Basketball, & Your Life Work from The BTS Center on Vimeo.