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This marks both the end of my slides, as well as the end of my marathon effort in getting them up on my site. Working on the archives is pretty much all I have done since getting my digitalized slides back last week. It’s just that I have been looking forward to this moment forever.

I dropped out of Gallery World after MB Modern for two reasons: my thought wasn’t getting heard, and nobody spends any time looking at a painting in a gallery. Great painting doesn’t give up hardly anything at a glance.

So I started doing Art Projects. My website became my gallery of choice.

A lot of transition in my life occurred over this time, but art-wise: photography went digital (and it was a long time before I got a camera), and then I pretty much stopped painting completely for 7 or 8 years, during which time I focused on expressing my thought in the form of cartoon binders. You can see some of the early ones in projects.

All of my cartoon binders (well over 200 at this writing) feature “my little man”, who has been with me for well over 20 years now. Check out my this just in project above, which is my most recent and is on-going. That guy - my public persona.

I always said that the art was just the stage I had to build so that my thought would be considered.

Right now, today, for the first time in my life, with the archives pretty much telling the entire visual story from here to there alongside a supporting cast of all the essays, projects and history lived and told; for the first time in my life I’m feeling something akin to artistic satisfaction.

I think I did all those paintings and drawings, mostly just to display them here, bad photography and all.

Or at very least, I think that is their highest purpose.

They exist for everybody equally.