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For the present moment, this is a site still in its infancy. The motivation for this website is based, first: on the insanity of this world and is, secondly, brought to fruition by seemingly mundane experiences such as: sitting in a restaurant or at home and graphically, with pencil in hand, responding to that news…all of which is horrid and always chaotic. Maybe in self-defense, I start to sketch on a napkin or placemat. Those rudimentary sketches grow into the graphics and even the typeforms which you see here. Afterwords just naturally follow.

Part of the reason for this website, aside from venting, is to at least attempt to wrangle with the Human-created Chaos/Insanity and see if any insight or equilibrium emerges. I never thought of this site as art therapy until I just wrote that. But maybe it is.

This site was launched close to the time of October 7th 2023. I didn’t think that I could be shocked by anything that human beings were capable of inflicting upon each other. But that event even rearranged my DNA. At least that’s what it felt like. I can barely read the descriptions of what was done to those people, children and even the yet-to-be born.

That is chaos writ large and I’m going to deal with it here until something inside of me realigns. The big question is: can one ever realign, or return to the previous center, after witnessing such a rabid and feral attack? However, I won’t be limited to that one event. There are so many to choose from.

That event of October 7th left me with the question: What ideology or ethos would ever condone or encourage such behavior…and then joyously celebrate it? And, secondly, is there a deeper history connected to it? And by “deeper history”, I don’t mean decades, but rather centuries of connection and history. I don’t like the answer which I have discovered. And that answer, sadly, is most decidedly, “YES”!

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Lastly, in addition to that spontaneous drawing reaction, I will connect those graphics with writing, attempting, through that combination, to unravel the events occurring in the World Insane Asylum. The graphics though aren’t enough. The words aren’t enough. Word and image need to link up and reflect and reinforce each other. In case anyone is interested (yawn), I’ve been a lifelong Democrat who always voted that ticket straight down the line. I still think of myself as a Liberal of some sort; but today’s Democrat Party is an affront to me, and, returning the insult, I will no longer have anything to do with it. So if you must have a label, call me Independent.

Some of these graphics would make great graffiti or murales.
That might be next.