Kurt Vonnegut

"She was a fool, and so am I, and so is anyone who thinks he sees what God is doing." - Cat's Cradle

Grapes of Wrath Diptych

The recent piece I've been working on.
Media: Acrylic and collage
Inspiration: The Grapes of Wrath and what it says about modern life.
Right now it's a Diptych, but I'm working on several other paintings, same size, same style.

I've been searching and searching for a style that's original. I think I've finally found it. However, I plan to keep developing it. After all, art is never finished, only abandoned.

I'd love comments and criticisms.
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Some Nietschze Insight.

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.

What is the mark of liberation? No longer being ashamed in front of oneself.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

...and when you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

Eternal Recurrence

The movie Waking Life proposes this really interesting thought. In your dreams, you often have no concept of time. You can fall asleep, have a dream that seems to last hours, days even, then wake up and find that you've only been asleep for a couple minutes.

They say your brain lives on approximately 12 minutes after your body dies. During these last few minutes, dopamine and serotonin are released, and your mind falls into a trippy, dream-like state. In dream world, twelve minutes could seem like forever. You could, in a sense, relive much of your past, even live an entire life again.

To go even further, maybe too far, during your last minutes, you might relive your entire life, your death, and your 12 minutes of brain function after your death. This creates an infinite loop of living.

Of course, this is a very solipsistic view. In these relivings, everything and everyone is a figment of your own mind. Nothing is real. This brings a lot of things into question, including whether or not the life you're living now is simply a repeat in a dying mind. This seems pretty crazy, but if you think about it, it's very rare to be aware of the fact that you're dreaming during the dream.

Nietzsche popularized the idea of Eternal Recurrence. He spread the notion that you should live your life as if you were going to be forced to relive it infinitely. The idea of that horrifies some people, but it's a good motivator for you to savor every moment and enjoy the beauty of life, instead of always looking to the future, focusing on making money, or performing mundane, time-wasting tasks like watching TV.

Spex

I am a human being.
made of specs
cells>molecules>atoms>particles>strings.
no single atom means anything to me.
5 million million fit on the head of a pin.

I am a spec
I am a human being
living day to day.
things matter to me.
but they exist only to me.

I am a spec
living amongst billions of other specs
on a tiny spec floating through space
revolving around a spec
in a galaxy of specs
that is in itself a spec
in the scope of the universe
and we can't tell whether the universe is a spec or not

but it's probably just a spec that exists for only nanoseconds at the center of a blackhole of another universe that exists for only nanoseconds at the center of a blackhole of another universe.


we are specs with no ability to conceptualize infinity in a place on a level in a layer of the universe that is infinite in everything.
everything.

Worcester, beautiful trees and architecture

Pictures I took in the city I was born in.
Compared to Florida, everything is seems so colorful in Massachusetts.

Could the book of Genesis symbolize the transition to agriculture?

-Genesis was set in the same place and roughly the same time as the advent of agriculture in the fertile crescent.
-Adam and Eve ate the apple, opening up Pandora's box and getting them banned from Eden.
-Although agriculture and domestication of animals was a huge step in bringing about civilization as we know it, with modern conveniences, technological advances, it was not necessarily a good thing for the earth. Look around you. We've covered our beautiful planet with highways and strip malls, polluted it, and robbed it of its resources. It's undoubtedly not as breathtakingly beautiful and pure as it was back in 10,000 BCE, and although there are still some nice parts left, the world population is growing exponentially, and it's only a matter of time before it's all gone. Our domestication of animals for food destroys the ozone, there's oil in the ocean because we use it for energy, there are nuclear accidents, etc. etc.
-In other words, the agricultural revolution was something we did as human beings that essentially got us kicked out of Eden, and will eventually lead to our demise.
-Our Hunter and Gatherer ancestors are known today to have had more free time than later agriculture civilizations, to have more peace within their tribes, and to live naturally.
-This interpretation makes it possible for Christians to accept the theory of evolution. It means that Adam and Eve were not literally the first people, but the first people to make that huge step away from living like other creatures to living the way that humans live now (so they were, in a way, the first people, depending on your definition of people.) This theory does not collide with the incredible amounts of fossil and other evidence we have proving that evolution occurred. It means that humanity existed long before Adam and Eve, but that Genesis picks up right around the time of the agricultural revolution. This also makes a lot more sense because it would be extremely hard for a story to be told over generations before humans have actually invented speech...
-The most renowned works of literature contain poetic elements such as allusions and symbolism. Creationists who take the Bible completely literally are perhaps underestimating the talent of its authors.
-Share your thoughts!

Arthur Wesley Dow

The boyfriend took me on a wonderful date to the Orlando Museum of Art so I could get some inspiration for my next landscape.

Three words: Arthur Wesley Dow

These digital depictions don't bring justice. The pieces brought tears to my eyes in person.