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Vicodin. I've been having neck pain off and on from a herniated disc last March. The initial sketch that I did for this month's painting came from my neck pain and medication. It morphed since then as I played with colors and techniques. Now I like to think of it as blissful and serene.
On a slightly heavier note, today is International Blasphemy Rights Day. This day started as a reaction to a Muhammad cartoon circulated in 2005. The dutch cartoonist dealt with heavy backlash in the form of serious death threats. Since then, there have been murders, Vincent van Gogh's greatgrandnephew, Theo van Gogh, for example. He was killed for making a movie about women's rights in relation to radical Islam. I'm not going to post any blasphemy today -because I didn't plan for it. Today I'll be grateful for countries with freedom of expression. It may not be perfect, but it is good to live where I don't have to worry about being jailed or killed by my government over disagreements in religion or politics. This issue is extremely important to me as an artist, as it is to many creatives pushing envelopes, expressing ideas, mirroring unrest. I've only pointed to one religion, coincidence only, the cartoonist and movie maker are creatives such as myself so I thought of them.
