Jan 12 2011
 Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.
–H. P. Lovecraft |
 Four Winds 3 |
Jan 11 2011
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.
–Jacob Bronowski |
 Four Winds 2 |
Jan 10 2011
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| Group conformity scares the pants off me because it’s so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn’t want to – or can’t – join the Big Parade.
–Bette Midler |
 Four Winds |
Jan 07 2011
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| Fear, conformity, immorality: these are heavy burdens. They drain us of creative energy. And when we are drained of creative energy, we do not create. We procreate, but we do not create.
–David McCallum |
 Stoic 2 |
Dec 31 2010
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| Armageddon is not around the corner. This is only what the people of violence want us to believe. The complexity and diversity of the world is the hope for the future.
–Michael Palin |
 Hollow 4 |
Dec 30 2010
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| Allow the diversity to exist. There is nothing wrong with it. Hell, we put up with the religious right-we can put up with transgendered human beings.
–Jessica Lange |
 Hollow 3 |
Dec 29 2010
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience.
–Karel Reisz |
 Hollow 2 |
Dec 28 2010
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| Case by case, we find that conformity is the easy way, and the path to privilege and prestige; dissidence carries personal costs.
–Noam Chomsky |
 Hollow 1 |
Dec 24 2010
 Holiday Adornment 1 |
I promised the community that when I had more information about my surgery on Monday, I would share it. So I’m going to do that while also sharing some digital graphics I created the past several days intended to evoke some holiday festivity.
Maybe they’ll call forth some other emotion in you, but I have no control over that. Whenever any of us experiences art, what the viewer imagines is mostly out of the control of the artist. We can try to steer your emotions, but it’s awfully chancy. I don’t even know if you all experience the same colors I see when a piece is finished.
Anyway, I’ve been told to arrive at Hackensack University Medical Center at 6:30 am for an 8:30am surgery. I asked how long I would be in the hospital and the office assistant is under the impression that this is outpatient surgery, which is a surprise to me and freaks Debbie out a bit. But I shall try my best to keep her calm. I told her that I would not permit them to perform the wrong surgery on Monday (this group of surgeons performs lap-band operations for most of what they do, but do other stomach surgeries as well…and this guy who is operating on me is the only surgeon who has performed the procedure I am having who also takes my insurance (Oxford)).
Dec 23 2010
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.”
–John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
 Decoration 1 |
Dec 22 2010
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
–Henry David Thoreau |
 Glyph 11 |
Dec 21 2010
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.
–Colin Wilson |
 Glyph 10 |