A Quote For Spring and Some Paintings

Sunrise Picnic at Human Head Rock 2024. Acrylic on loose canvas, 20 x 20"

Temperature goes over 60° and I have bright revelations.

Just a quote from a great philosopher that may uplift you for the final days, months, years, followed by my life expenses for the week:

In a culture where sex is calculated, religion decorous, dancing polite, music refined or sentimental, and yielding to pain shameful, many people have never experienced full spontaneity. Little or nothing is known of its integrating, cathartic and purifying consequences, let alone of the fact that it may not only be creatively controlled, but also become a constant way of life.

—Alan Watts from Nature, Man and Woman.

Buy it. Check the book out of your local library. I have read it 27 times. I cannot speak for it enough.

Total personal living expenses for the week: $198.80. (I ate a lot of rice.)

Here are the week’s paintings. Happy false spring. Goin’ to sniff dirt now…

I Look Like Such a Depressed Tool in a Wig Hat 2024. Acrylic on loose canvas, 20 x 20"

Who Would Moses Bulldoze? 2024. Acrylic on loose canvas, 20 x 23"

The Genocide Silence on Social Media is Super Duper Emetic 2024. Acrylic on loose canvas, 20 x 23"

Three Greedless Dragons. One With a Fake Beard. 2024. Acrylic on loose canvas, 20 x 23"

Alien Army Field Manual Rule No. 23: Bombing Scared and Starving Populations is Bad 2024. Acrylic on loose canvas, 20 x 23"

Maybe Too Much Color for an Anondahla Safari 2024. Acrylic on loose canvas, 20 x 23"

Pretty Stick Girl Bombed by Psychopaths What's For Dinner? 2024. Acrylic on loose canvas, 20 x 23"

The Acrylic Self-Immolation of Ronald John Throop 2024. Acrylic on paper (6) 12 x 16"