Brock Riggins is interested in how good conversations interweave themselves, the gossip of 149 BC Rome, alligators, the length of the Indian Ocean, our relationship to seasons, motherhood, maps, the long histories of culinary ingredients, mining rare earth metals, walking down the street, Mediæval Europe, the country of Georgia, the color of icebergs, shepherds (biblical and otherwise), the responsibilities of the student, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, swimming, theatre, why painting peaked in late nineteenth-century France, the American West, and plumbing. He is a painter.