An April Fool

"Once upon a time there was a little boy - a bastard of heaven and earth - who lived on the moon of childish imagination. His body was ageless, an eternal physical presence throughout the realm of humankind's imagination. The boy knew nothing of pain or sexual delusions, war, loss...he was an innocent...
until the day he saw an idea fall from the mind of an artist to its death. It was on that day that the waterfall of tears began to flow in the land of imagination and continue to flow to this day."

- Journal entry - reflecting on giving up.

New and Dark

Someone once asked me "why don't you draw nice things?"Every now and then I think about this questions and I think I've found an answer that I can live with. "Nice" things don't have to work to be pretty, to be beautiful. It is their nature to be pleasing to the eyes, soft on the mind and in some cases downright sugary. Ugly and dark things are often in the process of becoming beautiful and it is that process that I find beautiful. Below are three new images from The Final Transformation... that deal with just that idea, or rather are an example of the road to beauty.

9 x 11 - Pen, Brush, Red and Grey Ink

9 x 11 - Pen, Brush, Red and Grey Ink

9 x 11 - Pen, Brush, Red and Grey Ink