i have forsaken much of this online world to experience art in the reality.  now that i have my own studio in the Salt, Saltacetylene, i spend much of my time creating, welding and capturing art in the real world. i am also training for the Salt Lake City Marathon, so much of my time online has been taken to the streets - as it should be.  still bipolar, still me, still processing a divorce from last spring.  however, now i can breathe, i can feel, i can drink, i can drunk, i can think, i can fuck without the guise of being stuck down, abandoned.  goodbye mormon god. mormon culture. hello me.  i believe in me.  as it also should be.  

so life has and always will be an art.  i sold a piece a while ago - the saltcycle holdup for $150.  it was my first piece sold.  got a good cut - 75% profit on the piece.  however, i still have trouble selling myself, selling my work. i am an artist forever more, not a business man.

i am continually surrounding myself with artists and creatives in an effort to push my art forward.  it is no longer a matter of if i am good or not - it is a matter of creating, being and working with my environment.  

which is why i am moving to Portland, Oregon in the fall of 2010.  have been speaking of this move since 2003 and now i feel i can finally move forward on the matter.  i feel it will help my artistic self to create, to be and move me closer to my new found vision of being more sustainable.

so goes life, reality.