Me for You

 Me for You

Hold me
As if we were now you,
Completed.
Trust me
As if I were the mirror
In which you saw yourself
As the you you dreamed.
Believe in me
As if I could fill any gap
To make you whole.
Ask me anything
As if the question were answered
Before it left your lips.
Say yes to us
As if we were and could never be
Any less than that.

100 Lives

 

From: 100 Lives (Condensed)
Her parents were both alcoholics. She had both the attitude and the body for tattoos, and, believe me, she had many. The visible ones were astonishing. The hidden ones were a play ground for the imagination. Even as her flesh aged and sagged, her tattoos still drew great admiration. Men were repulsed and attracted by her, often both at the same time. Though many men loved her, she never married. When she died, it was the first nude full-body, open-casket viewing anyone had ever attended.

HCA #33

 Holy Church of Art

Sermonette #33

Brothers and sisters in Art,
Make art for yourself first.
To test your resolve.
To see if you’re all in.
Too see if you’ve found beauty.
To see if it shakes the world, even a little.
To see if it’s honest.
Then it will be ready to take on the world.

Believe

 Do You Believe This?

Do you believe this?
Life ends, love endures.
Then take armfuls of love from its universe
And scatter it freely like seed.

Do you believe this?
Love’s arrow is free
To choose any target.
Then let its drugged tip enter deep
And work its chemistry.

Do you believe this?
Love is work
Rewarded with more love.
Then plant it.
Pull the weeds.
.
Do you believe this?
Love can speak
In sacred voices.
Listen, then
Love the world with vengeance.

HCA #32

 

100 Lives

 From: 100 LIves (condensed)

The age 7 day: He fell off his bike, got kissed by a girl, read a bedtime story to his little sister. The age 11 day: Had a Belgian waffle for breakfast, failed his math test and broke his collarbone in a fall from the neighbor’s tree. The age 17 day: He shaved off his beard, finished Huckleberry Finn and lost his virginity. The age 27 day: He woke up drunk, was late for his own wedding and didn’t get the blow job he expected. The age 32 day: He watched his son be born, looked at his wife as he had never done before and even thought he could come to love his mother-in-law. The age 51 day: At breakfast he confided something to his wife that he thought he never could, spent an ordinary day at work and got a call saying that his son had died in a DUI. The age 73 day: Finished a book on Genghis Khan, decided not to go to dialysis and died in his favorite easy chair.
63.

HCA #31

 Holy Church of Art

Sermonette #31

Brothers and sisters in art,
Art is distressed about the loss of its young people.
For most of them, once their drawings are taken off the refrigerator, their art life is over.
They are not taught drawing as an active form of disciplined seeing and visual investigation.
They are not taught the principles of art as a language.
In a visual world, they are not taught to interpret the messages of advertising, marketing and visual design.
They remain visually illiterate.

HCA #30

Holy Church of Art

Sermonette #30

Brothers and sisters in Art,

Discipline is the foundation of all great art. Discipline in commitment, discipline in thought, discipline in use of skill and talent and discipline in execution. Disciplined practice is the basis of intuition that is faster than thought, very reliable.

Be disciplined. 

People

 

HCA #29

 Holy Church of Art

Sermonette #29

Brothers and sisters in Art,
Visual art is a language of images, but a language none-the-less. It has grammar and structure. As a result, it is capable of expressing ideas and emotions, telling stories, being descriptive and poetic and more. It can be clumsy or articulate.
It can intersect with the language of words and the language of geometry.
Frame your art as language and see what happens.

Role models

 Role Models

When the Gods cohabitate,
Rocking the celestial fields,
They create all creation.
Should we do anything less?
You scream, “Oh God!” and tell me
This is heaven.
Did we awake to a world we made anew?

Great lovers in myth and history
Were tortured in their love,
Willing to trade now for eternity.
Is their lesson a measuring stick
For our temporal circumstance?
Could we grab eternity
In the smallest fleck of time?

The Blessed Virgin, rewarded for her trials
As mother, rises from the stable floor
To the Throne of Heaven.
Should I expect less for all the diapers,
Stumbles, wounds and losses
Than a son of God?

100 Livea (Condensed)

 Her length in centimeters. Her temperature taken in the ear. How many blocks she stacked before the tower fell. Her allowance. The length of her hair. Her IQ. Her bust size. The minutes it took for her to lose her virginity. The pay per hour at Burger King. Her GPA in high school. The carats in her engagement ring. Her weight. Her weight. Her weight. The square footage of her house. Her weight. Her blood pressure. Her age. Her weight. The cost of a hair appointment. The endless hours in the recliner. The weight of her ashes.

HCA #29

 Holy Church of Art

Sermonette #29

Brothers and sisters in Art,
Visual art is a language of images, but a language none-the-less. It has grammar and structure. As a result, it is capable of expressing ideas and emotions, telling stories, being descriptive and poetic and more. It can be clumsy or articulate.
It can intersect with the language of words and the language of geometry.
Frame your art as language and see what happens.

HCA #28

 Holy Church of Art

Sermonette #28

Brothers and sisters in Art,
ART embraces all art, but it has expectations.
It expects integrity, truthfulness and commitment.
It expects a vision that brings the viewer to a new place.
It should be a gift.

HCA #27

 

Donald and Jesus

 It’s delusional for anyone to believe they can be a good Christian and support Donald Trump.

Donald Trump doesn’t have one iota of the courage of Jesus.
Donald Trump thinks only of himself. Jesus always thought of others.
Donald Trump had Stormy Daniels. Jesus had Mary Magdalene.
Donald Trump is a liar and a crook. Jesus faced false charges in an exemplary way.
Donald Trump uses people. Jesus enabled people to love.
Donald Trump excludes those he doesn’t like. Jesus welcomed everyone.
Donald Trump lives a life of wealth and luxury. Jesus walked among the poor and disenfranchised.

Evil is easy

 Evil is easy. The Seven Deadly Sins are great seducers. They promise wealth and pleasure while they slowly eat away at the soul. They are most dangerous in the hands of the powerful.

Love is hard work. Authentic love is an enduring commitment that is constantly tested. Its rewards are in the small and countless acts that affirm the power of the human heart.

Night sky

 Don’t look up at the night sky. There must be a football game on TV somewhere.

Don’t look up at the night sky. You might miss that glorious slam dunk.
Don’t look up at the night sky. Your cell phone has all you need.
Don’t look up at the night sky. There’s a video game from a galaxy far, far away.
Don’t look up at the night sky. The social media influencers are waiting for you.
Don’t look up at the night sky. There’ll always be another meteorite.
Don’t look up at the night sky. It’s only where you came from.

100 lives

 From: 100 Lives (Condensed)

Boyfriend #1 was Dad. Boyfriend #2 was Uncle Johnny. Boyfriend #3 did impressive tricks on a skateboard. Boyfriend #4 had lots of curly black hair. Boyfriend #5 was hung. Boyfriend #6 had a nice car and money in his pocket. Boyfriend #7 was Husband #1. Husband #2 drove a black he-man truck. Husband #3 told her she had the nicest tits he’d ever seen. Husband #4 owned his own business and bought her diamond earrings. Husband #5 gave her a fancy funeral and buried her next to his mother.

Journey

 journey

glance
stare
dream
ask
touch
kiss
enter
gasp
whisper
sleep
wake
work
wed
dance
bed
seed
birth
cry
giggle
blood
rage
bliss
grasp
release
fail
learn
savor
weep
sing
embrace
pray
fade
die
live

HCA #26

 Holy Church of Art

Sermonette #26

When a work of art increases excessively in value, it becomes a commodity. It’s locked up because of its value, and so deprives of its true intention.
So make art that will escape into world, to be what it’s supposed to be.
Make art that’s persistent in its provocation.
Make art that puts itself into the consciousness of its viewers.
Make art that continues to assert itself as art.