Tufte's Variations | "Expending His Energy to Promote Your Power."

Posted by Garret Tufte on Jul 22, 2019

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.

Posted by Garret Tufte on Jun 30, 2018

“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.

Posted by Garret Tufte on Apr 21, 2018

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.

Posted by Garret Tufte on Feb 14, 2018

“Swimming in Fire”

Life drawing, 2′ x 3′ pencil on paper, digitally colorized.

Posted by Garret Tufte on Aug 13, 2017

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.”

Posted by Garret Tufte on May 8, 2017

“Roots Unbound” – In Progress

18″ x 18″ x 50″, 350 lbs., Italian marble.

Posted by Garret Tufte on Mar 1, 2015

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.

Posted by Garret Tufte on Mar 1, 2015

Lady in Waiting No. 1

12″ x 12″ x 20″, Kansas Limestone.

A Quick Word to the American Olympic Team

Posted by Garret Tufte on Jul 28, 2021 in Misc. Prose, Philosophy, Writing | 0 comments

Other cultures have more direct experience with outright tyranny than we do, so unfortunately they have an advantage today. Stand tall, fight through it and endure, and the prize is yours.