Art Project-

[draloo]

I am a painter. Since May 22, I have given away 13,000 copies of my paintings in all 50 states. I offer them for free. I only ask that you share your 45 Postal Art Cards with friends. These paintings speak more eloquently than the impassioned rattlings of a million angry keyboards. I am having difficulty crossing the boundary of people's disbelief that some dilettante painter would go to such lengths to give away his artwork. The admittedly somewhat incomprehensible website is meant to be the sweet chocolate covering of a chewy nougat of truth. It is intended to be fun.
All joking aside, this project has given me a great deal of pleasure. Those people who have gotten the cards have been pleased. I have been getting requests from Europe and I have mailed them across the Atlantic. The images are being published in some small underground newspaper in Switzerland.
An enthusiastic lady in Chicago asked for more cards so I sent her one hundred and fifty. She mailed a full five card set to thirty US Senators two weeks ago. Perhaps I should expect a visit from DHS soon. There has already been an investigation by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement because of my blasphemous use of the Star of David in my paintings. If you look closely you will find that there is no Star of David in my paintings. People see what they want to see. Sometimes I feel like a canary in the coal mine of freedom. If I am not free to distribute this artwork, are any of us free? If we refuse to be afraid, the battle is won.
I don't know that I will ever again be able to paint unselfconsciously. I painted these things over the last six years and I am proud of them. They express exactly what I perceive to be the unfolding of history in the period of right wing madness we have endured.