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Thereās no reason to panic - Iāll be at your side through thick and thin. My art will guide you through. The sands of time will carry you, to where we will be together for eternity.There was a snak...
Read moreWhen you hit the drive-thru the first thing you get is a little thrill when you see the backlit menu with its packaged meals. The next thing you get to do, as you drive-out, is compare your meal to...
Read moreI am a world changer. I wrote that on a cap and started to believe in myself again.Itās useful to know that you can write yourself a message in your artwork, to motivate yourself, and others can be...
Read moreItās a time of love in a cruel world
Itās a time of love in a cruel world. Every year, in the same week, the message is: well folks, we should be doing better. And then we do worse.Love of God turns to hatred, of other peopleās ideas ...
Read moreThere are people who hug trees
There are people who hug trees. I thought it was just a myth until I found someone who takes it seriously on Facebook. She gives each old tree a genuine embrace as if to say, āThank you for the sha...
Read moreWelcome to my ant story. In my ant farm thereās a tunnel from my heart to my art gallery. I dug it eating sand. Seriously, I keep wondering whether Francis Bacon would have been so messy if he knew...
Read moreRemember you are special enough
Have a near death experience. Remember you are special enough. I got gastric flu, and it traveled through me like it was going through a bile duct from hell. Puddles of sweat, on a stale bed, are a...
Read moreA day early. Donāt worry be snappy: embrace your chains. Otherwise just carry on streaming from your couch, and make sure the stars donāt fade.I hate the rollout of online advertising, accompanied ...
Read moreColour is a drug. Stop taking it and you canāt function. Take too much and you overdose, or you vomit out the toxic excess. No wonder some addicts just paint in primary colours without battlin...
Read moreIn a way, I prefer night to day. In the beginning I embraced the 24-hour gym experience, and found myself exercising at 3am on weekdays. Trouble came when I tanked at 3pm, and began to sleep every ...
Read moreCompassion arises when the diamond of the mind rests in the flower of the heart. This beautiful Buddhist saying is obviously about the way we have to reconcile our two parts. The thinking head and...
Read moreYour eyes donāt see whatās there. Your eyes only see what they want to see. Thatās the great thing about highly subjective images: they talk so many different languages. Itās something corporate co...
Read moreIām not saying the art world is a worm farm. But perhaps I am. Perhaps it does live off its own waste. I donāt have a problem with that. A wormhole, however, is something vastly different. It can b...
Read moreOtherwise please exhaust me with your unfinished business.Ā Generally thatās what the act of living amounts to: unfinished business. And thatās how we like it. Primarily because the opposite means ...
Read moreRemember when the word roast didnāt mean comedians saying terrible things about each other? I spent so much time over the holidays thinking about the good old days, I forgot about the here and now....
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