East Texas Art

In the heart of East Texas, there is a renaissance of education, business, art, and cultural growth occurring. Among the tall pines that reach far into the skies above us, we find peace and serenity. In this, we have as a result a blossoming of creativity and of life as it should be here on Earth. To reflect this as well as many other messages about our planet, our existence, and much more I have created this website, and all of the art that you will see on it. There are many articles that follow below of which I hope that you will take the time to read and understand because the more people that do , the more of a difference that they will make, and the more of a difference you as a person can make. The goal of each piece is to spread messages, thoughtfulness, and ideas. However, they are also each one of a kind and in being so, highly unique. Each piece is valued accordingly. Therefore, if you are an art collector, investor, or enthusiast be sure to pick up your piece while it is here ! 

Extinction of mankind

It’s unmistakable, the world around us is changing, and the majority of this change is brought on by mankind and our steadily rising population. However, human influence is not the only thing acting upon our planet. In retrospect, we are actually infanitsmal as our entire civilization, general existence, and possibilities for future generations could be extinguished just as soon as it has started. We are all, despite what we would like to believe, mortal to the greatest extent. In this fact, we can find only one solution to survival and the continued prominence of our species. We are endowed with intelligence beyond that of other animals on Earth, and in order to prevent ultimate extinction level events, we must focus on prevention efforts and use our brains in order to do so. If we do not, then our extinction is a daily roll of the cosmic dice. The forces above us are far greater than any that we have or can create. In denying this fact, we find nothing but ignorance. For instance, can you create an entire cosmos ? For that matter can we even traverse the cosmos in the fashion of which we travel our roads and highways ? Naturally, the answers to these questions is currently no. We are on a scale of civilizations, highly primitive. This statement, while most likely highly controversial is nonetheless true. However, will we ever reach the full potential that our intellectual minds have afforded us? The question has an obvious answer once again if we continue on the trajectory that we are on, and that answer, for now, is no. Of course, this is not a permanent answer, and depends entirely on humanity’s willingness to defend itself from the greatest threat to all life on planet Earth and all life on any planet, the cosmos. In doing this, we can eventually grow to be an intergalactic civilization with vast knowledge, advanced technologies, and ultimately we can become what we were destined as conscious beings to become. On the other hand, if we do not redirect our focus from political jargon, social issues, and other nonsense of the sort; we can never fully focus our collective efforts towards the manifest destiny of mankind across the universe, advancing our species technologically, our place among the stars will not be secured, and eventually we will be wiped from existence just as easily as the dinosaurs before us. Currently, we have the power to make a vast difference in the outcome for humanity, but if we don’t begin acting now when we are 7 billion strong, then we run the tremendous risk of missing our chance eternally. What is there to lose? Everything. What is there to gain? Everything. In terms of investing, you don’t want to keep all of your eggs in one basket. Even Warren Buffett, though he preaches against a diverse portfolio, through his company Berkshire Hathaway owns a diverse portfolio of companies. In an analogous way, humanity has all of its eggs in one basket, with that basket being Earth. Possible solutions for this particular problem consist of the following: 

1. Expand our presence in space through habitation missions while simultaneously embracing a new Earth culture of scientific exploration in every field ( a sort of scientific and technological renaissance) 

2. Building habitable ships for a space faring race of humans, equipped with rovers, drones, and other exploration equipment so that they never have to land on a planet to explore it as a possible habitable zone for others to establish colonies. 

3. Sending out missions with preconstructed materials to jumpstart advanced civilizations and agriculture throughout our solar system, and eventually throughout others as we progress. 

4. Save our current planet through setting up a cosmic defense system with the directive of protecting Earth from solar events, incoming space objects such as potentially catastrophic  comets and asteroids , and through furthering our understanding of our universal surroundings, identify other potentially life threatening factors to give us a chance to deflect them in a timely manner.

5. Devise and implement ways to protect ourselves from Earth born and man made cataclysms such as a nuclear winter, large volcanic events, environmental destruction, and environmental pollution.

Elaboration on these points of action can be found below. 

"Dinosaurs are extinct today because they lacked opposable thumbs and the brainpower to build a space program."
Neil Degrasse Tyson
Astrophysicist, Author, Science Communicator

All Originals With A purpose

All art presented on this website was created in my home studio, and is a piece of history. There is only one of each made, which increases their value to collectors and investors. In doing so, aforementioned above, I have priced them accordingly. However, the money from the sale of each piece goes towards the cause they represent in some form or another. For example, I am a scientist in my own respects. I study everything from biology, chemistry, physics, geology, electrical engineering, aerospace engineering, and even astrology. These fields interest me because they disclose a lot of the working of what we can physically observe in our universe on a localized scale. However, good equipment is expensive, and in order to advance my own studies of various phenomena, history of our planet, and life itself, it takes a lot more than what I can afford. That is why I started making art. I didn’t want to take out loans, get grants, or anything like that. I wanted all of my work to be self funded, but it is hard to make any kind of discoveries or breakthroughs with the current apparatus that I am working with. Beyond this matter, I aim to build a new laboratory in which to conduct my experiments and research which is all aimed towards the advancement of humanity as a whole in the short term and in the speculated long term. Therefore, if you want to make a difference in the present day and for the future, buy a piece today. They will only increase in value over time,  and would be great to add to a personal or familial art collection. Aside from this, the proceeds go towards the advancement of our species, and they might just turn out to be the best investment in art you’ve ever made. 

"The purpose of art is to represent the meaning of things. This represents the true reality, not external aspects."
Aristotle
Ancient Greek Philosopher

Ocean Pollution

As stated by the World Resources Institute , ” The Ocean adds $2.5 trillion each year to the global economy, feeds 3 billion people, is home to more than half the world’s species, produces half the planet’s oxygen and absorbs a quarter of all carbon dioxide emissions. Yet it is a treasure in peril.” The peril referred to in the above quotation is our drastic impact on the environment through pollution and overfishing. Approximately 70% of our world is covered by our oceans which are home to an outstanding biodiversity. There is so much to explore, and so much to learn from our world’s oceans. However, if we pollute them, and destroy vital marine ecosystems, we destroy the promise of discovery they afford us. Beyond this, tropical paradises will cease to be created, and those that have already been created will diminish overtime and eventually vanish in an extreme scenario. For example, if we don’t save our coral reefs, the parrot fish that feeds upon this coral and in turn produces tons of sand in its lifetime through defecation will be rendered useless and exposed to extinction alongside many other species that rely on the vibrant reefs. If we lose these reefs, we lose our growing landmasses as well as our sandy beach paradises across the globe.  This is only one unintended consequence of our destructive actions. 

"We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came."
John F. Kennedy
Former United States President

DEFORESTATION

The forests that once stood across the great country of America, and across the world have slowly but surely been destroyed by mankind. In their place, we have left our trail of carnage in the form of small undergrowth, and scattered remains of the large timber that once shaded the ground below it. This fact is as evident in far countries as it is on my home turf as I look around and see the last stands of what were great forests full of life, and those that have been taken out and left with thickly weeded underbrush that chokes out the trees as they struggle to regrow. While the Earth is very resilient, if we stopped doing everything that we have done to it today, it would still take millions of years for it to recover. Even then, the markings and identifiers of man would still impact the planet and all life on it. According to the World Resources Institute, 

"When humanity wins its battle against the forests, this victory will be humanity's greatest defeat!"
Mehmet Murat Ildan
Author, Playwright

ORIGINS OF ART

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The Final Frontier

Space, it has fascinated humanity for the entirety of our existence here on Earth with the promise of wonders to be explored, and much to be learned. In today’s time, we are closer than ever in recorded history to unlocking more of our universe’s secrets as well as expanding mankind’s presence among the stars. Though progress has been slowed down in the past, we are now beginning to enter a new age of space travel, exploration, and discovery. All thanks to the generations who were inspired by what lay beyond, curious to know more, and those ready to expand mankind’s horizons beyond this singular stronghold of life, that of which we are destroying. What we find within our own solar system, as well as beyond it will expand upon our understanding and possibly change the way we see our universe. In doing so, it could change the way we see ourselves. We already know how special life is here on Earth, but many questions prevail about complexity arising elsewhere in our universe. Beyond this, we face the fact that we only understand less than 5% of our universe’s composition, which is the matter that we are composed of. We speculate and calculate, but what good will that do us if we never find the things that correlate? For instance, our universe is expanding. We know this to be a fact. However, the constant rate at which it is expanding, known as the Hubble constant is highly debated. In fact, if the universe is constantly expanding, and this expansion is constantly accelerating, then there is reason to believe that sometime far in the future of our universe there will be a “Big Rip” event that will tear everything apart to the atomic level. This is merely a theory of what would happen if the force of which we speculate is causing this expansion, otherwise known as Dark Energy, is getting stronger. More detailed information is stated on the Nasa website about Dark Energy as well as the equally mysterious Dark Matter. 

"Look up at the stars, not down at your feet."
Stephen Hawking
Theoretical Physicist, Cosmologist, Author

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Atmospheric Heating

We’ve all observed the global impact of climate change on our planet. It has been causing ocean levels to rise, temperatures to increase worldwide, and the drastic melting of our ice caps. Our planet may be resilient, but it has become apparent that we need to take action immediately to prevent these catastrophic changes to our biosphere of which will affect us all despite differences in opinion. It has been debated on political stages worldwide, which is not where this topic belongs. Corrupt leaders merely want to use the climate change topic as a fear factor to line their pockets with more money, as if they do not have enough already. Politicians will not save the planet, it is up to the people. When I refer to the people, I do not mean the people of one nation. I mean that the people of the world can unify, put our own money, resources, and minds together in a unified way to figure out a sustainable and environmentally friendly way to power our homes, cars, and everything else.  I am by no means demonizing the current way that we have of powering our world because without them, we wouldn’t have power. On top of this, the Earth would be more tolerable of these activities if it wasn’t for the destruction of other major players in keeping our atmosphere cool and free of carbon dioxide such as our precious forests. However, once again corrupt people who care not for the future of this planet or humanity, but only for the lining of their pockets are letting this destruction take place. There are people that will take offense to what I am saying though I have no political orientation or motivation besides helping our planet and all that inhabit it. This place is a shining jewel of the cosmos, a place so beautiful and unique that it must be preserved. We are so lucky to be in existence, much less to be able to breathe in the wonderful air of an atmosphere of which we all share, even with the all to often forgotten animal and plant kingdoms. It is imperative that we unify, and take leadership into our own hands as citizens of all nations of the world, and work together to save our planets through thoughtful action and words. The most influential way to lead is by example. It is based in human psychology that people will do what others are doing and say what others are saying, even if it doesn’t make any logical sense. It has been tested over and over again in various, different social experiments, and even exemplified in some of our world’s greatest wrongdoings. Those who are leaders in their own rights, with individualistic minds and caring hearts have the opportunity to take a stand in even the mildest form by leading subliminally through setting themselves apart from the crowd as examples of what this world could be like. Today, we are all so segregated by our differences in opinion, yet this is not what humanity should be. An ant colony for instance does not quarrel over social constructs, nor do they have a mainstream media to provide them with what they should think, do, and model their lives around. In this respect they are more advanced than us. We have the ability to do so much greater in every field of study and advancement, yet we do not in accordance with the plans of those that want to keep us at a stand still. We have the ability to work together like ants or bees, build something amazing, produce something sweet, and provide for one another. If we as a species can put aside our differences, and focus on a set of primary goals, we will be able to save ourselves, our planet, and eventually reach the stars. It is just a matter of doing so, and ridding ourselves of the corruptions of the mind that seem to put self driven desires above all as well as bias and opinionated thought. How do we do such a seemingly impossible task ? We can lead by example, and spread enlightening education far and wide. There will always be certain evils that persist, yet if the majority can overcome this, we can conquer such things with love and peace. I am certainly no hippie or anything of the sort, but the people who spread such messages were far more understanding of life than those who spread hatred and destruction.

"Men argue. Nature acts."
Voltaire
Writer, Historian, Philosopher

FORMS OF ART

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SPACE AND HABITATION

The history of humanity is littered with the tales of exploration, conquering of foreign lands, and manifest destiny. We seem to spread out across all continents very rapidly, growing civilization, cities, and our domination over the thin layer of Earth’s crust upon which we all reside. However, as powerful as we seem and view ourselves to be in doing all of these things, we are in fact very weak compared to what lies below our feet as well as above our heads. As I have alluded to, and directly pointed out in the above passage about the extinction of humanity and potentially all complex life here on Earth, we need to use our minds to push our boundaries and continue our conquests into the reaches of our solar system and our galaxy. If not to gain knowledge then to preserve the intelligence of humanity and the complexity of carbon based lifeforms from planet Earth. (Refer to the passage about life on other planets to see why this is so important)This planet is equivalent to a nest for birds that have grown too large to stay and must take flight. We must do so not because this planet is not wonderful because it certainly is, but because we are killing it and because it faces extreme risks of being impacted by the cosmos or some other internal factors that would set us back to the dark ages, if not extinguish us entirely. Just as something to think about, no rock has been found that is as old as the Earth itself. This is because the crust is constantly recycling itself. With that being said, one can truly grasp the volatility of our planet which seems to us to be so stable in our short lifespans. Inhabiting and exploring space is a daunting task, and it will undoubtedly take a lot of will power, brain power, man power, and funding. However, it can be and should be done. Otherwise, we run the risk of losing all that we have learned as a collective ,and all that we have come to be as a species. We have the technology, and as we continually expand our knowledge of space by manifesting ourselves among other planets, around other stars, we can continually advance using new understandings and new materials. Let’s review a few of the points made in the above articles concerning space travel, exploration, and habitation.

1.Expand our presence in space through habitation missions while simultaneously embracing a new Earth culture of scientific exploration in every field ( a sort of scientific and technological renaissance)

This point is self explanatory. We need to bolster and revamp education because the current system is a literal joke. I went to public school when I was growing up, and from experience, I can say that it was terrible. I started out loving to learn, but as I grew older, my interest began to dwindle in terms of wanting to go to class, read, and learn as much as possible about everything around me. There were so many distractions, bad teachers, and much more that needs to be fixed. I remember teachers telling us college would be so hard, and all of these ridiculous claims. Then, when I started going to college, not only did I have a much lower stress level, less assignments, way better teachers, and a fertile learning environment, I discovered that I had rediscovered my love for learning and overall desire to excel at everything. The learning  environment as well as the overall structure of UT Tyler should re replicated among all schools private and public. Teachers should actually know what they are talking about, be well paid, and continue in their own education as they educate the upcoming generations. The deterioration of our education system has led to the decay of our society. You see it everywhere you look, and ignorance is wide spread among the general masses. Even people with degrees have closed minds. I’m not just dissing on everybody and their moms right now, I am just stating my observations and how we can change for the better. We need a scientific renaissance, not just in wealthy parts of this country and others, but worldwide, starting right here in America. I’m not saying that we should have free college education on the tax payers dollar or anything else concerning the recent political movements being pushed in today’s time. I am saying that we need to reform our current education system and our country’s orientation as a whole to make a collegiate education available through general education. Of course, not everybody will be capable of succeeding at higher levels, but that is alright. They should at least be exposed to these eye opening subjects, and have an interest cultivated within to encourage lifelong learning and prosperity in whatever they choose to do. The more educated our population is, the better we can make decisions on how we as a species choose to move forward and the faster we can advance as a society, in every aspect. Educational materials should be made widely available so that anybody who wants to learn can do so without the barriers to entry we currently face. College and trade schools can still be the next step up, but they should be made to further an already advanced education in the subjects that students enjoy and that will apply to their division of labor that they choose, whether that’s as a healthcare official, electrician, physicist, chemist, or anything else. There are endless opportunities and endless career paths, but we should be pushing scientific education in all of these as it will help us understand the bigger picture and orient towards a collective goal of expansion. 

 2. Building habitable ships for a space faring race of humans, equipped with rovers, drones,and other exploration equipment so that they never have to land on a planet to explore it as a possible habitable zone for others to establish colonies.

There could be many questions posed with this point. Why not land? Well, we could have people landing, but that would put our most valuable resource, people, at more risk especially if they were in zero gravity for extended periods of time between destinations. What I am proposing in this point is that we send several highly educated, devoted groups of humans into space on crafts that are habitable for extended periods of time, potentially indefinitely. There are many concepts for such craft such as the centrifugal design among others that could work. Currently, we have one such craft in orbit, the International Space Station (ISS), but I highly doubt that you’d want to take it on an interstellar mission. We need new and numerous craft to take mankind where we have never journied before. These craft would not only take the explorers, but it could also take the colonists as well in their own ship. We can speculate from Earth, the habitability of a planet, but so far, we can not really know until we go there and see for ourselves. On top of this, a space faring race of humans could evolve to become used to zero gravity and the conditions within their ship out in space. They could potentially be the front lines for discovery and science, relaying new information to us on our home bases on a regular basis. This could tremendously advance us as a species, pushing us beyond being merely interplanetary, and making us independent of planets entirely. The question remains, do you really want to put all of your faith in a planet anyways? Earth has been great so far, but the fact is, it could all go south so to speak very quickly. This is not only the case for Earth, but any planet. On top of this, eventually, our sun will begin to die and become a red giant, engulfing our beautiful blue planet and anything left on it. While this is far in the future, would you want  to be there with no hope of evacuation or would you rather be crusing the cosmos among the stars? 

3. Sending out missions with preconstructed materials to jumpstart advanced civilizations and agriculture throughout our solar system, and eventually throughout others as we progress. 

This point goes hand in hand with the previous one. If we do choose to continually inhabit other planets, we won’t want to start as a primitive civilization. As discussed in the passage about life on other planets for instance, there is no telling what kind of microbes there could be and what kinds of effects they would have on us or what they would do to us. The same goes for more complex life on these potentially habitable planets. Beyond the astrobiology of the matter, we also face the factor of needing shelter, clean food, water, and air. We can provide materials constructed on Earth or potentially ,as we begin to mine and process raw materials on the outer reaches of our solar system, from the outer exoplanets, large asteroids, or even a ship designed specifically for this purpose. These materials would go towards the rapid colonization of other planets, and the building of more ships. The rapid expansion would further secure humanity’s existence, and our progress as we continue on to leave our own solar system after inhabiting all of its moons and planets that are feasible for doing so upon. 

"Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole."
William S. Burroughs
Novelist, Painter, Essayist

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Getting Out in Nature

We could all benefit so much just from being outside more. Mentally and physically, nature can bring more life to us and remind us how much we need to respect it. The world around us is a true masterpiece, and we might as well enjoy it as often as we can because we each only get so much time here. Even if we move beyond human vessels and are able to download our minds, or any of those other things, we don’t have that capability yet and we don’t know what the future holds for us. If there is one thing life has taught me personally above all else is that we need to on an individual level make every day count because we never know when it could be our last. There are so many things that could happen, and so far everyone on this planet has a 100% probability that they will at some point die. You may live until you are over a hundred years old, but is that really living if you spend all that time indoors, on the couch, on your phone, or whatever the case may be? Of course, it’s merely my opinion but I don’t believe it is. I have a little boy, and he is the metaphorical light of my world. Being young and full of energy, he always wants to be outside. Though he learns a lot from me, I learn just as much from him. It’s almost as if we grow old, we are impressed upon by others what we should be like, and we lose the free spirit that lives within us all. Through observing my son, I have watched him grow and develop, while also feeling that powerful character that he exhibits. He makes me realize how fast time passes, and in realizing this, I often slow down. I take my time with tasks so that I can enjoy the majority of my time with him because he won’t be young forever. As a father, it gives me great happiness within to spend time with him, to teach him new things, and to watch as well as engage in play along with other outdoor activities with him. He interacts with his environment, receives feedback, and adapts based on this. Essentially, he is a young scientist with a large imagination and tons of creativity. I have found through him that young minds are the most open minds, and that in this being so, it’s imperative to not corrupt them. There are so many extraneous factors in our world today that does just that. It puts seeds of negativity within the minds of the youth, and it overloads them to the point of which they often are brainwashed in a sense or don’t know what to think. However, if exposed to the outdoors, if allowed to marvel at the stars above on a dark night, or a brightly lit moon hovering above on a well lit one, they will gain more than they ever could from a biased teacher, media, or anything else of that manner. In learning from my son and his encounters with nature, one more thing, perhaps the most important of all, became apparent to me. It seems it had been there all my life, yet I was blinded to it by the ways of the world. People put values on things with no true value, and people tell you what you should strive for to make you happy. They tell you success will make you happy, but their definition of success is so closed minded. When my son was born, I had to make money to provide for him, and I made it my mission to make as much as I could. Before I knew it, I was working all of the time, extremely stressed, and thinking that once I made a lot of money, that would be it, I’d be happy, I’d be successful. What I didn’t realize at the time was that I was successful all my life, I always reach my goals, and those of which I set at the highest points I work towards every day. I make ample time for my businesses, but now I focus more on my family. Through watching my son in his carefree play, I gained the understanding that life is too short to worry, stress, and chase something with a perceived value to everyone else. I remember thinking to myself, ” Happiness is not the destination, happiness is the way. Make each day count, and be happy in everything you do.” I ran inside, wrote it down so that I wouldn’t forget it, and hung it on my office wall where it still resides today. I live by those words, and I make everyday count because I never know, just like all of you reading this, when it could be my last morning to wake up, when it could be my last time kissing my son goodnight, and when it could be the last time telling those I care for how much I love them. Just as our daily existence as a whole is a cosmic roll of the dice, so are all of our lives on an individual level. Knowing all of this, get out of the office, get off your phone, reconnect with your family, and spend some time outside enjoying this marvelous planet we live on. Afterall, you just never know when it could all be gone.

"We are like butterflies that flutter for a day and think it is forever."
Carl Sagan
Astrophysicist, Author, Cosmologist

THE WORLD OF ART

In this outstanding world known as Earth, the beautiful blue and green planet third from the sun in our solar system, we can see just how amazing life is. Humans have come so far in such little time existing here, and it all revolves around something as ancient as our genomes themselves, art and the transference of knowledge throughout the ages using written language as well as stories. Everything we know about human history comes from what we have found archaeologically and what has been left behind for us to find in ancient sites of civilization. The Earth is a vast place, and it is almost certain that much of our ancestral history remains to be known whether it has been undiscovered or merely misinterpreted. We get more informational glimpses of our past through artist works left behind by primitive people on cave walls as well as those left behind by more advanced (technologically and intellectually) such as megalithic structures across the globe. With more being uncovered all of the time, we are beginning to realize as a species that there is much more to our story than what we primarily thought. As we go into the future, we must advance scientifically, logically, and with moral. We must seek the truth, and we must pass it on in the ways of our ancestors, through art, culture, stories, and the written language. Much more so, we must solidify in stone our history as we accurately know it, not based on bias or speculation. Through inscribing dates, data theories ,and all significant knowledge that we have as a species so that if our current civilization were to be obliterated or perish, possible survivors that rebuild or even new intellectual life forms to be born of our planet would have a head start in bringing about an advanced civilization in a sustainable and goal oriented manner. That is the beauty of art, we have been trying to pass down knowledge for as long as written history has been around (the majority of human existence), and we must continue to do so. However, as demonstrated by the ancients, books burn or rot and as we know today, electronics don’t last forever nor would they be a good way to transfer knowledge to a population of primitive people. However, stone megaliths are an Earth friendly way to transfer our most important knowledge to future generations. Languages may be uninterpretable by another species or unadvanced humans, yet art is more of a universal way of communication. Of course, that is not to say that we should not use our written dialects as well in a sort of Rosetta stone fashion, it just goes to say that if we truly want to preserve the advances we have made so far, even in the event of a major event destructive to human life, we must artistically depict and encode our knowledge in stone. All around us, we see this world of art, our cultures revolve around it, and the sanctity of human beings for generations has been built upon it. It is up to us to ensure a future for life, especially intelligent life, in any scenario as we are merely mortal and can not bet all of our chips on the present state of humanity and the luck of our planet.

"Live life to the fullest. You have to color outside the lines once in a while to make your life a masterpiece. Laugh some every day. Keep growing, keep dreaming, keep following your heart. The most important thing is to not stop questioning."
Albert Einstein
Physicist

ENTERTAINMENT & THE ILLUSION OF REALITY

Entertainment has been around since the dawn of civilization. However, as time as marched on and as generations have come and gone, the forms of entertainment have changed. Today’s entertainment is more immersive, addictive, influential, and ultimately distracting. For examples of these, we can look at television, smartphones, gaming devices, drug use, and social media. All of these things allow for the dissociation from reality, and can distort perceptions of what is truly important. We watch what others are doing on social media as if it really matters, we play games that have endless levels with no ultimate outcome beyond the game itself, we watch movies with repetitive plots and themes that we’ve seen countless times in different forms, and we allow for all of this technology to control us rather than the other way around. Of course, there is a rare demographic wielding its power for useful purposes, but overall it is harmful to actual productivity, advancement, and factual information dissemination. You commonly hear the phrase, “you can’t trust everything you read on the internet”, and this is very true. Anybody can write anything, and make it seem as though it is factual when it is not. Reality in itself is so hard as it is to perceive and fully comprehend with our feeble senses and limited mental capacities, even if we are an intellectually dominant species on this planet. 

"The effect of society is to complicate and confuse our existence, making us forget who we really are by causing us to become obsessed with what we are not."
Zhuangzi
Philosopher

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OTHER LIFE IN OUR UNIVERSE

One can speculate that among the tens of billions of planets that we’ve discovered to be Earth like in our observable universe that at some point within the billions of years that our universe has been in existence that life has formed elsewhere. However, while it is highly probable that small microscopic lifeforms have formed, what is the actual probability that more complex life and even intelligent life has formed on other planets? 

"Two possibilities exist; either we are alone in the universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying."
Arthur C. Clarke
Science Writer, Explorer, Inventor

THE GREATEST PIECE EVER MADE

The greatest work of art ever created is the work of art that we can observe from anywhere in the world. We don’t have to go to a museum, or an art gallery, and we don’t even have to go online. We can just walk outside of our homes at night, and look up at the outstanding beauty of the night sky. This artistry is the universe surrounding us, and all of creation. Even the wonder of life is one tiny spec of paint on this grand painting of creation. Therefore, instead of watching television before bed or playing on your devices, go sit beneath the stars, marvel at their glory, and be thankful that we are not only a part of the greatest story ever told, but also a part of the greatest piece of art ever made. 

"Look up at the stars, not down at your feet."
Stephen Hawking
Theoretical Physicist, Cosmologist, Author

As above, so below

If you’re still reading, first of all, I’d like to say thank you. I hope that you’ve learned a thing or two, and I hope that you understand the true depth of reality. This world, this life, and everything else is what we make of it. With this knowledge, we can conquer the greatest conquests and overcome our greatest obstacles ,as a people and on an individual level, all while maintaining balance. Tranquility is waiting on the other side of understanding. Therefore, I hope that I’ve brought you both. In all of this, please check out some of my pieces, ponder them, and let your mind be free. I made them all to be thought provoking, and to give my audience something they’ve never seen before. After being to many art, history, and science museums as well as visiting our countries monuments, I was inspired to make these pieces to portray my own world view. America means a lot to me, being that I am a citizen of this great country, and despite all of our differences, I am confident that with a little enlightenment and compassion for one another, we can overcome all of these things that plague our world. I am even more confident that if we work together, that we will be able to expand into the farthest reaches of space, save our planet as well as our species, and ultimately become what we were meant to be. We can overcome the falsehoods fed to us everyday by just looking around and using common sense. We can logically view our lives and the factors influencing them. We were given the outstanding capabilities to make a difference through using our minds, our hands, and our tools to change our environment ,and to advance ourselves in every way possible. Given these gifts, we should not take them for granted. We should not squander our existence away, and we should take advantage of our abilities to make a better and brighter future for all of humanity as well as all life here on Earth. We were given the amazing capability to communicate verbally, through sign language, and through written language. That is why I am writing this for all to read, and to take into consideration. I have a vision for the future, and I would like for that vision to take root. I would like for humanity to move away from negativity in any form towards one another, and to make a change so monumental that it will land us in the history books as the age of change. We have a choice to make everyday, what will your choice be today? 

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
Mahatma Gandhi
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