Leaving 2011 a little crazier than before.

Now ive had time to have everything in my life kick me in the nutz and pour hot coffee down my pants! I picked myself up, got an ice pack and developed a strong dislike for caffeine. a can think of a brighter days in 2011, but it has been a major test of indurance and dedication to continue the journey toward success. I thank 2011 for represention at Pop gallery in downtown disney, and.for the year I began surfing...other than that, this year has tested me to determine whether im worthy of being an artist, writer, creator of imagination coming to life. I enter the new year feeling enlightend, humbled, and quite more eccentric than even before. I am standing behind my convictions and human desires. I am a smarter and more respectful now than this time last year. I will continue my path of creative and life evolution and I hope to share my life experiences by entertaining those who understand and appreciate my work with social commentaries of oir differences and how we affect each other. I genuinly thank all who have supported me, my work, and my family through out my career! I will have a much larger presence in 2012, im ready for it, ive paid my dues plus extra credit, its time to take the stage and share the world of Strangely!

I feel like I woke up from a trance when this dawned on me!

As I spend the majority of my time in my studio painting, writing, or generally whatever Im doing, I found myself not wanting to be to far from my phone or the computers so I can see what everyone was doing on FB, Twitter, emails, ect. It got to the point to where I was checking it 10-20 times a day. I know alot of you do the same. We start living through online social networking. Our lives are made into what WE make them into. Needless to say with the holidays around and Mercury Retrograde, and whatever part of the universes machine that goes array around this time...it dawned on me. We are living ARTIFICIAL LIVES in this digital day and age. I was using FB and other social networks as a means to promote my art and let people know a little about myself, but, I was drawn into the world it creates...it's DESIGNED to draw us in and give us a feeling of instant gratification.

It's creating people to stay at home more, and to have less desire to go out and do things in the world. ANOTHER thing I noticed about FB is, it's another venue that sets us up for pointless drama. People deleting each other over stupid stuff, then the other person's feelings get hurt, (and some of these people NEVER EVEN met each other.) It's kind of insane when you think about it.Funny thing is, there IS NO WAY to DELETE FB. They only allow you to deactivate it and mthey make sure to let u know you may come back at ANY time and your account will be restored to it original state you left it at...

I'm not telling you all to go and deactivate your FB's, Im simply stating why I did, and not to let it interfere with our lives and if it does, be AWARE of it. I miss not having the distraction of it, I miss "calling" people instead of "Facebooking" them. I miss a pat on the back and seeing someone smile when they look at my art instead of 97 people "liking" a new painting I spent 80+ hours on. I just miss reality...I dont want real life to die.