Origin Stories, The Empire of Stuff, and the Light of Consciousness...
July 14th, 2026 I've always been fascinated by origen stories. I think that as you get into middle-age and start to grapple more with mortality, especially once people close to you actually start to die, the more you tend to want to know the meaning of the things...Gauguin's famous " Who are we? Where did we come from? Where are we going? ". My apartment is torn up this morning. The water heater is out, and in order to access and troubleshoot it, we had to move all my stuff off the big metal shelving unit in my storage room to be able to slide it out of the way. So many tools! Objects of our objects...how did Theroux put it...? "Man has become a tool of his tools"...The Universe is a Thing that Makes... The Object of The Object, mixed media on maple ply, 2010 I've been building and making things, without stopping, almost every day since I was a little kid. I have made a livin...