Lost in my head.

Talk about lack of focus. I have a thousand things to do and I can't get out of my head to do one thing. We need to buy an affordable house out in the country, we need 3+ bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, and something similar to a garage. To keep focus, it also should be around Fruitport, MI. and a bout 65,000 thousand dollars.

New Place

Well we have moved, Michigan, Grand Haven to be exact. New place, new beginnings. Time to start typing again.
See you soon.

My Wife

Sunday, May 27, 2012
Yesterday was 12 years with my wife. Hurrah someone could put up with me and my mind for that many years is amazing. We have had our ups and downs, yet we haven’t giving up on each other. I am sure that many times she has thought about it, after all I am not an easy person to live with. My history has always been one of a nomad, if I didn’t like something I was gone. On the other hand if I want something I will get it no matter the cost, and I won’t lose. I have gotten older and look at things a little different than when I was young, I am still a hard case (ass) and I want things a certain way, I just deal with things a little, let’s say more tactful. I love my wife and my family, I still travel when I can, but I always have a home to come back too.

STRESSED

Well some things are not up to us to change, like others choices to be idiots. If stress makes you stronger I am Hercules. The artwork is a poor man's mind.

PERCEPTION

Saturday, April 28, 2012
I guess my mind is on overdrive, I see so many things in everything. Lay my face down and in the sheet design I see a perfect bird, yet the print is of a fruit basket. This is one reason that I can do cover-ups so well. I have always wondered how others see things. Many of the artists that create optical illusions have caught my attention for years. But in the goal to see how others see I had to see how others think. Years ago when I started people watching, the biggest problem is communication. Not so much the lack of, but the understanding of what they are trying to communicate. Simple that one sees it one way and the other sees it another way.
In this piece that I created years ago, I purposely turned it as I drew it. That would keep my perception changing. Over the years people have seen so many different things that I did not have “that idea “ when I drew it. But now that someone has said it I can see it and ever wonder how I could not have seen it before.

My Fruit Loops soaked in pee

April 10, 2012
So out of all the love that we have been shown in our lives how come it is so hard to pass it on?
Why do people spend more time trying to get as much as they can from others, instead of maybe giving a little bit of the extra that they may not use? So much waste and some would rather see it go to waste than help one who might use.
There are good and decent people out there, I understand that some of those have been used out or up. You can only help someone if you don’t use up what you need to survive. Taking advantage of a good thing only lasts so long, and then the idea of helping anyone becomes bitter. There are largely growing groups that don’t want to learn how to fish, they’re to use to the fish just jumping in the boat. When the boat sinks or leaves they go and find another boat, I think it is time for most of the boats to go out to sea. We can leave them some line and a cane pole, maybe some hooks. It may seem like I am mean, but I have others that can’t take care of them selves. So why should I let someone take all that I have and short the little ones of the things that group had when they were little. Some won’t like the decisions I have to make; it is just a matter of survival.

RE-DO

the recent pics are recreations of tattoo and other designs I have done in the past.
Thanks for looking
Ray