Expansion, we grow as we struggle. 2020 has been a year of productive struggle.

Life provides moments where we either sink or we swim, and in the days of quarantine and global divide, we all must swim...especially as artists.

In 2017 I started a Patreon, I launched it with care and diligence and then I got discouraged as it felt as though I was writing to myself. Now in 2020, after looking at the stack of notebooks holding my writings, with the state of the society in decline, I realized it doesn’t matter if my friends and family read it...if I want to be an artist, I must share. We need an art revolution.

I’ve updated the images, the posts and the goals with the same mission of organizng a community of artists in order to form a worker owned production company that will tell the stories of the too often unseen communities. That is the long term goal for Patreon. There you will find writings with interviews and research, along with poems from my journey on my exploration through art, and photography of stories that I am covering or wish to cover more indepth.

Right when we think we are there, and we can not take any more, our art reminds us of the beauty in our natural human. I have been jaded about society for more decades than some have years, but I still see hope in the construction of community based systems that will provide basic human rights for our communities without the need for global conglomerates and angel investors.

As artists, we can provide a new scope of vision on issues that are shaped predominately by mainstream media. Now with technologies that have connected us globally, we can tell those stories and push those narratives forward to solutions versus hypothetical questions.

There are free writings available to Non-Patrons, with exclusive updates and writings that are published once a week for Patrons. Currently, I am researching Part II for the first four part series — “Farming Culture or Agriculture?” where we are going in depth on the culture that was lost to commercial farming. Also, touching base with the organic farmers who are there shaping a new paradigm for us to follow. For next week’s release I am interviewing multi-generational family farmers on their experiences and thoughts on farming and government farming programs. While also covering the beginnings of how the indigenous cultures of farming were lost to the new settlers in the midwest.

If we do not see and listen to the stories that we did not live, we will never be able to live in a society that understands one another. There is Freedom of Press for a reason. We drive next to each other on the streets, we all eat food, but yet if we can not work together, how will the future generations live? Coalition versus competition, my friends…let’s go plant some thought seeds.