“Unbound, yet Rooted” – In Progress
18″ x 18″ x 50″, 350 lbs., Italian marble. Work in progress.
A Letter Concerning Minimum Wage (with calculations)
This is an increase in the minimum wage. If we’d like to keep our governmental functions and stimulate the economy, simultaneously, it’s a winner. When you pay your workers enough to buy their own work, you make equity, as Henry Ford paid his employees enough to buy their own vehicles.
“A Titan Emerges”
The long awaited final installment of a four-part political cartoon series. 24″ x 36″ pencil drawing on paper, digitally colorized. Click on the picture for highest...
A Simple Sonata
Around five minutes of solo piano. Three years of playing, and this is something new, composed, and particular. According to my mentor, this is “the first thing you have played that I understand”. Success! Playing with the 1-3-5-7 in C-major, with a little bit of B. Enjoy!
Onward’s Sphinx
It is a long road… Part 3 of a 4 part series. 36″ x 24″ pencil drawing on paper, digitally colorized.
Stand Strong
The 2nd of a 4-part series. Individual focus, and the forces at work upon (and within) one’s mind. 18″ x 24″, digitally colorized.
Piano @ the Studio, May 25th, 2016
Twas a dark and stormy night in May. ~4 variations on a theme.
Economic Growth: A Visual Translation
Everything in this picture is a specific metaphor. The main figure, a woman, referred to as “the Body”, is tortured and ripped to pieces. She represents our general welfare, our environment, our shared present, our common dreams, in the style of Lady Liberty. Each “Lilliputian” represents their own part in this charade.
Recent Variations
Ego-Bridging Bi-Polarities
I’m living on the brighter side of the sun,
doing time ‘tween sciences,
mathematically defining reality,
Whether ‘Merica or transcendence,
Enshrining the Racially-Ignorant
The ultimate truth of fascism and xenophobia is this: it is ultimately self-defeating. Any ideology that excludes “the other” for “one’s own”, and attempts to enforce this, is destined to fail. It will find itself gone, destroyed, and annihilated, for the simple statistical fact that there are more “other” than there are “one’s own”.
Read MoreA Confession: Electrical Infrastructure, Indebted Servitude, the Power of People, and Personal Culpability
Is such a confession enough to assuage guilt? Is this “practicality”, this requirement for monetary compensation, though so short term, sufficient justification for continued deaths overseas, the perpetual pollution of our water, and the poisoning of our land?
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