I was a princess from the future on Halloween...

On being an artist:

'The world is always struggling to express itself--to make clear its hopes and sorrows and give them voice. It is always seeking the means, and it will delight in the individual who can express these things for it. That is why we have great musicians, great painters, great writers and actors. They have the ability to express the world's sorrows and longings, and the world gets up and shouts their names...You and I are but mediums, through which something is expressing itself. Now, our duty is to make ourselves ready mediums....You must help the world express itself. Use will make your powers endure. You can preserve and increase them longer by using them for others. The moment you forget their value to the world, and they cease to represent your own aspirations, they will begin to fade...You can't become self-interested, selfish and luxurious, without having these sympathies and longings disappear, and then you will sit there and wonder what has become of them. You can't remain tender and sympathetic, and desire to serve the world, without having it show in your face and your art. If you want to do most, do good. Serve the many. Be kind and humanitarian. Then you can't help but be great.'

--taken from Mechanism and Mysticism: The Influence of Science on the Thought and Work of Theodore Dreiser

Solo Show

Oh, just some stuff I've made: Caitlin Diaz

A Time and A Place

A few years ago, I became pretty entrenched in the occult and magick.

Not much has changed, but as I return to my library to re-read my collection of books on the subjects, I wonder why I presently am indifferent towards it all.

Is this a new level of skepticism?

I'm not really a fan of fiction--

I prefer to read about facts and theories.

But please give me some fantastical story in the form of alternate dimensions and infinite worlds.

I've been thinking a lot about what kind of films need to be created in this lifetime and I have come to this conclusion: 'films that are complex, visual and hypnotic.'

Now, what does that entail?

We are missing the great minds of this generation.

People today are too involved in themselves, their idea of the 'dream' and what comes with 'living it.' Such psychobabble.

Where are our undergrounds?

Where are the truly crazy and mystikal beings that will leave their mark?

I guess either their time has passed, or I am living the wrong life.