TO SERVE MANKIND

“Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality…Where there is no property, or at least none that exceeds the value of two or three days labour, civil government is not so necessary.”… Continue reading →

Welcome…

… but be forewarned. You’ve stumbled onto my patch of cyber “real” estate. If odd drawings of semi-naked, not-so-polite people will offend you, limit your views to the “Published Work” pages. Don’t go to… Continue reading →

OVERPASSED

“Not every problem someone has with his girlfriend is necessarily due to the capitalist mode of production” —Herbert Marcuse What if we are (were?) all communists at 20 years of age, free-loving free-thinking… Continue reading →

MACHINA EX CONSUMPTIO

“The real problem of humanity is the following: we have Paleolithic emotions; medieval institutions; and god-like technology.” – E.O. Wilson When do you think it will happen—if it hasn’t already—when machines begin to… Continue reading →

MACHINA EX COMPETITIO

“Avē Imperātor, moritūrī tē salūtant” —doomed participants in Roman circus events“Aut nōn” — the emperor in reply Yes, this drawing is based on the 1872 painting Pollice Verso (Thumbs Turned) by French pop-academicist… Continue reading →

WERE THIS A PLAY

“Don’t tell them too much about your soul. They’re waiting for just that” —Jack Kerouac What do a flood plain near a big city and windy moor not near one have in common?… Continue reading →

SOMETIMES A CIGAR

This drawing is just one of those ideas—AGAIN!—that happens spontaneously while doing something else requiring little concentration—in this case, journaling—allowing enough mental space for ideas like this to congeal into an image quite… Continue reading →

SEWERS AND LADDERS

“Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become.” —Heraclitus What you see here is a lifelong version of the game of “Chutes and Ladders”… Continue reading →

ART AND ARCHETYPE

“Any legend, any creature, any symbol we ever stumble on, already exists in a vast cosmic reservoir where archetypes wait.”  —Guillermo del Toro It’s lizards and aliens now, but when it was just… Continue reading →

NO-VIZ VEST, SOME DAY BEST

 “By the mere appearance of the Other, I am put in the position of passing judgment on myself as on an object, for it is as an object that I appear to the… Continue reading →

MEDDLING ADULTS

“Every man, it seems, interprets the world in the light of his habits and desires” but also “The world of most men is given to them by their culture” ― Richard Wright, The… Continue reading →

TEMPUS FUGIT

“At all the more important moments while he was telling his story his face took on a very strange, composite expression. I could only interpret it as one of horror at pleasure of… Continue reading →