Hi all! I wanted to show you all my latest creation. I’ve decided to embark on an exploration of a whole new world. It’s populated by pumpkin related denizens (because I like Halloween) and I plan to use it as a mirror of our own society, it’s fears, insecurities and short-comings.

Now, don’t get the wrong idea. I’m not trying to be a stick-in-the-mud or doom sayer by focusing strictly on the negative aspects of our society but, as the old adage goes, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” It’s the problems that we need to correct. The only way to do that is to talk about them. By creating a new world with a new race of people I hope to remove all bias and stereotyping that might be inferred on them. This way, I can talk about issues in their world that parallel our own, hopefully imparting my message to everyone who views them without impugnity.

This piece is titled “If You Could See What’s On My Mind” and deals with the subject of societal control on what is considered acceptable in the realm of the mind. Being a purveyor of imagination, I have come under fire from this very form of socially accepted censorship. We all have the right to think what we like and to be unfettered by fear of reprisals for what we think. People are often censored in the workplace or the family for thoughts and their sense of imagination and this is a trespass that should be talked about openly and often. Expect this to be a theme in many of my upcoming paintings.

The character in ”If You Could See What’s On My Mind” has had all of his orifices sealed up. Corks, tape, staples, stitches and even a zipper stop him from being able to communicate what’s on the inside to the outside world. Not content to be bottled up, his mind left to ruminate in its cranial solitude, he has taken the initiative, severed the stitches that keep his head closed up and removed its top to release all those things that deserve to see the light. The idea here is not that these shapes emerging from his head are some kind of horrific monstrosities but rather that they are flights of the imagination that are now unbound.

I hope you enjoy viewing it as much as I enjoyed painting it!

For now, that is all. Goodnight.

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