Like the website that hosts it, this blog is only concerned with using art and brief texts to uncover the bias and other limitations of thought conditioned by memory and tradition, thus also revealing how this largely unacknowledged tribal egotism that affects all human beings creates and sustains the systemic disorder and violence of the world in which we all live.

Without a radical awakening to the immense distance between our mental and social reality and the truth, we are condemned to continue living in the same cruel division, conflict, and sorrow to which we ourselves sustain with our personal memories, thoughts, and desires.

SPRING IS BARELY HERE ALONG WITH SOME OF ITHACA'S BETTER ANGELS - Photo Essay - 48

It is early Spring in this part of the world, and the last few weeks have been rainy and dreary, yet one is filled to the brim with the promise of the coming warmth and color. The worsening ideological and economic conflict in the world has also entered Spring, filling the mind at its source with uncertainty and a persistent sense of dread. The only consolation lies in considering that a time of great crisis can also be the crucible out of which a radical transformation of the human psyche may emerge. May the darkness intrinsic to everything that keeps us culturally and psychologically divided and at odds with each other succumb to the light of the life we all share in exact, equal measure.

The images in this collection surely reflect my state of mind and heart as all of us, together and apart, navigate this harrowing transit. Click on the first thumbnail to see the photos full size, and drop me a note if you’d like a print or two.

SPRING IN MY EYES AND MY HEART / LA PRIMAVERA EN MIS OJOS Y EN MI CORAZÓN - Photo Essay - 49

TWENTY-EIGHT WINTER PHOTOS - Photo Essay - 48

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