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
Consolidated Facebook & Reddit Comments
These are comments from various Facebook and Reddit pages, written over the last month. Unedited, uncensored, in no particular order, and completely without context. Despite that, there is a thread of consistency (mainly political and economic discourse), and a story to be found. Hope you find them enlightening and entertaining. [WARNING: contains strong language and stronger rhetoric.]
Read MoreOrders & Issuance
“That government which governs least.” A natural organism, organically flowing. Governing little, in the realm of the biological.
Read MorePiano @ the Capitol w/Dustin Baxter
Recorded February 5th, 2016 in the beautiful and reverberating rotunda of the Capitol building in Topeka, Kansas. Featuring your mad pianist, Garret C. Tufte, and classical piano maestro Dustin Baxter.
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