Kintsugi People
Joseph Massey: "The best people I know rebuilt their lives after extreme loss. Like a broken clay pot repaired with gold lacquer — the Japanese art of "kintsugi" — they're stronger and more beautiful for having fallen."
YouTube to Artist: You Cannot Sing Your Anti-Vax Song, and Further, We Won’t Allow You to Post Any of Your Songs!
Kylan deGhetaldi is musician who is highly critical of the efficacy of the COVID jabs. He wrote and performed an anti-vax song expressing his criticisms, titling it "mRNA (Speed of Science)." His song became popular, quickly accruing more than 100,000 views. In reaction, YouTube deleted ENTIRE 16-year channel with hundreds of videos. Here the video, which you can view on Odysee, not Youtube.
Speaking of musicians, Melissa Etheridge recently sat for this interview with FIRE on censorship and music.
End of Winter
Yesterday this tree in Tower Grove Park (in my home town of St. Louis) told me that we've reached the end of winter.
Hybrid Photo-Paintings
I'm exploring some new techniques, including a Wacom digital tablet and digital mixer brushes to create hybrid photo/paintings, this one of a cabbage portrait I took several years ago.
About the Egyptian Fayum Mummy Portraits
Today I learned about the Egyptian Fayum mummy portraits. These are amazingly lifelike portraits that were painted on wooden boards and attached to mummies from BCE 1st Century until the 3rd century, many hundreds of years before the Renaissance. These Fayum portraits exquisitely capture the personalities of the subjects. If you haven't before seen these, take a look.
