John Cage (1912–1992) was a titan of the American avant-garde who dissolved the boundaries between music, visual art, and philosophy through a lifelong commitment to chance operations and Zen-like egoloss. Initially famous as a musical “inventor,” Cage revolutionized the 20th-century soundscape by creating the prepared piano—placing bolts and screws inside the instrument to alter its timbre—and composing the infamous 4’33”, which framed ambient silence as music. In the latter part of his career, he seamlessly translated this “indeterminacy” to the visual arts, producing a vast body of roughly 900 works including intricate etchings at Crown Point Press and experimental watercolors at the Mountain Lake Workshop. Whether tracing stones in his Ryoanji drawings, “smoking” paper with open flames, or using the I Ching to determine the placement of a musical note or a brushstroke, Cage’s multi-disciplinary legacy remains a singular pursuit of finding beauty in the unplanned and the everyday.