A New Economic – Saving the World in Three Easy Steps
Everyone becomes a debt-free homeowner, and the rich stay rich. There is no need to incarcerate anyone, no class warfare, no fighting in the streets. This plan, quite literally, makes the “American Dream” happen for everyone, all at once.
“The Fire Enlightening”
“The Fire Enlightening” is comprised of nine poems that narrate a journey of philosophic self-discovery, populated with logical and chaotic conceptual metaphor, to bridge a synthesis between the world of nature and the artifice of man.
Surveyor’s Golden Disk No. 1 – Astronomic Latitude
A useful primer for those interested in how latitude has been determined, over land and sea, from prehistory to the Ancient Egyptians and Chinese, to Viking explorers, and all the way to present navigators.
“Swimming in Fire”
Life drawing, 2′ x 3′ pencil on paper, digitally colorized.
Kansas City Star Maker Faire 2017 Spotlight
“Garret Tufte, 32, works as a civil engineer and land surveyor in Lawrence, Kan. But he is also a writer and — as the limestone carving taking shape with his hands showed — a sculptor.”
“Roots Unbound” – In Progress
18″ x 18″ x 50″, 350 lbs., Italian marble.
Electro-Gyro, version 1.0
Turn on the switch and the gyro spins in a set position. Pick it up and twist it to feel the resistance of the angular momentum.
Lady in Waiting No. 1
12″ x 12″ x 20″, Kansas Limestone.
Recent Variations
A Catalogue of Short Notes (Summer 2021)
This will be a collected list of short notes, beginning with one, and with more to be added.
Read MoreTruth Perpetuates Truth
Truth perpetuates truth, and lies perpetuate lies.
Stand clear when the chain reactions collide.
Read MorePreaching to the Street, Part II
Way too many of us got fattened up on Disneyland fantasies, and closed our eyes, ears, and mouths to “see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil”. Do that when the world is corrupt, and you’ll shut your senses off to reality.
(Disclaimer: This essay is a foul-mouthed rant to the zombies wandering the streets, and the tone is not necessarily indicative of my actual, occasional “street-preaching”. Chalk it up to an especially foul mood…)