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I really don't feel any jubilee mood for America's 250th, because how?? Assuming we somehow get out of this insanity without completely collapsing the entire country, we have a long list of damage control to get out of where we are now - a dangerous combination of Opus Dei-type theocracy, Neo Nazi fascism, and Cold War East Germany authoritarianism all at the same goddamn time. I don't see a celebratory atmosphere with the following (as a start): -ICE, who are now the Americ

As I hope the title and the art makes this clear, art has always had the ability to tell the truth. It's nothing to apologize for. I didn't want to keep my mouth shut when insurrectionists stormed the US Capitol on 1/6/21 in a violent attempt to block the electoral vote certification. It was a deliberately violent day of sedition that will not be erased from the historical record, fascist censors be damned. Sorry for such a late post - going back to school in the Fall for we

Almost every artist worth their salt (& pepper) have already taken a hard stand against AI ripping off artists to train AI models to further powerful companies' ability to, well, rip us off. Here's my statement on this: NO. I do NOT give consent for ANY of my work to be used in even a single AI training model, program, test platform - NO. MEANS. NO. And in case you haven't heard in very many different areas of life - NO is in fact a complete sentence. TikTok, Meta, any other

The one word I've heard more than any other to describe the 2020s was surreal . So much happened so fast it was difficult for anyone to keep track of everything - two years of Covid-19 lockdown, morally repulsive xenophobic white nationalism in the US including a violent insuurrection of Jan 2021 (not to mention similar extremist movements in the UK, Australia, and especially Russia in its invasion of Ukraine), hundreds of natural disasters breaking every record in frequency

Well I didn't expect to start a blog right off the bat with the new online portfolio, but given it's easily available on the new hosting service, I might as well give it a shot (along with the only good pic I ever got in college!) I'm a multimedia artist/designer from San Leandro. I have two art degrees - a BA in Art (Emphasis in Multimedia) and an MA in Multimedia (Concentration in Interaction Design), both from CSU East Bay in Hayward, CA. I earned my BA in December 2017, a