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Spiralling vortex of government corruption, the revolution will not be televised. 100,000 people protesting, and our censored media propaganda reports a few hundred, nothing to see here, go back to paying your taxes. #consumption #abstractphotography #fineartphotography #pandamnit #lockdown
Reality Caught in a Vortex Trap...
Plan 'b' is, actually, photography! Plan 'a' has been the primary revenue generator: petroleum reservoir engineering. Plan 'c' was to publish the Pancake Inventor's Notebook - a Photographer's Cookbook. Plan 'd' worked out to be our photography gallery. On September 1st, 2020 Plan 'a' officially comes to an end, and plans 'b' and 'd' take over. #consumption #abstractphotography #fineartphotography #pandamnit #lockdown
45 Years for Plan 'b' to Take Over...
Remember fidget spinners? Wow, they sure came and went out-of-fashion fast! I wonder how many millions of dollars were spent on something so completely useless? Dr. David, our Feng shui consultant when we built 'the big house' told us that if we want to make lots of money do something useless. Being an engineer this didn't make sense, I need to do something useful. Which is now why I'm moving to Mexico when I retire, the cost-of-living will suit my lowly pension. #consumption #abstractphotography #fineartphotography #pandamnit #lockdown
To make money do something useless...
Nature is Superior, even where humans attempt intervention, thinking they can manage it better. Nowhere I've ever seen... Mostly humanity screws it all up, makes a farce out of our arrogance. We can't even manage ourselves, our garbage, junk, waste, rubbish... #consumption #abstractphotography #fineartphotography #pandamnit #lockdown
Humans Playing God
Catching stars at night, thinking is the best way to travel (Moody Blues), imagination is more important than knowledge (Albert Einstein). So, when Einstein came up with his revolutionary theory of energy, e = mc*2, it was impossible for him to produce a 'peer reviewed paper' because nobody else had a clue what he was talking about. Case in point: 'peer review' means status quo, nothing new to offer, don't rock the boat, follow the leader... #consumption #abstractphotography #fineartphotography #pandamnit #lockdown
Peer Review This!
Don't ever doubt the power of just one mind. Or the world wide power of just one rhyme. Don't ever doubt the force of the bass line. Or a record gone round to burn the house down. You got to let go of remote control. Hey world, you know you got to put up a fight... Michael Franti & Spearhead. We let go over 25 years ago now, prefer to spin vinyl on the turntable. #consumption #abstractphotography #fineartphotography #pandamnit #lockdown
You got to let go of remote control
Contemporary fine art offers a diversion from the stresses of life. #consumption #abstractphotography #fineartphotography #pandamnit #lockdown
Heavy Metal, too hot to handle...
No matter the genre - classical, jazz, blues, rock, country, reggae, zydeco - Love is a common theme. Love gained, lost, unconditional, missing, or misunderstood, there must be something about love, something we humans crave... Love conquers all... #consumption #abstractphotography #fineartphotography #pandamnit #lockdown
Love is all you need (Beatles)
Aldous Huxley wrote Shakespeare out of existence in his 1931 dystopian social science fiction novel Brave New World. He saw Fascists burning books after Mein Kampf was published in 1925. Today the Woke Marxists want to cancel Dr. Seuss. The entitled generation who expect everything handed to them, so they don't ever have to lift a finger working. Just like Karl Marx! #consumption #abstractphotography #fineartphotography #pandamnit #lockdown
Macbeth, Act IV, Scene I.
It presents positive, definitive, realistic, ideas to make practical differences. #consumption #abstractphotography #fineartphotography #pandamnit #lockdown
Melting my Heart's Desire
Plenty of space, definitely have the time, now to retire and spend the rest of my life as a photographer, forty-five years as the back-up career, it can now be primary... #consumption #abstractphotography #fineartphotography #pandamnit #lockdown
My Next Project: Mexico!
To Keep straws out of rivers, lakes, oceans, and landfill - just melt them into art... #consumption #abstractphotography #fineartphotography #pandamnit #lockdown
Love those curly straws
We'll be turning a corner this year, retiring from petroleum reservoir engineering, and leaving Canada for sunny, warm Mexico. My retirement dream, my passion project, is to move to a hippy dippy little town and open a fine art gallery to sell my photography. #consumption #abstractphotography #fineartphotography #pandamnit #lockdown
Heading South!
Heart on a pacemaker, hooked up to life support, IV drip, ventilator, everything it needs to survive a pandemic, but it just doesn't work any more. #consumption #abstractphotography #fineartphotography #pandamnit #lockdown
Life support failure...
Pan fried on a panini machine, melted, deformed, disfigured. Morphing the subject matter changes the context, it becomes something else, something different, abstract. Add social thoughts of excessive consumerism and the vision of pathological consumerism becomes holistic. #consumption #abstractphotography #fineartphotography #pandamnit #lockdown
Not to be confused with actual food...
Scientists can't find, prove, or explain Dark Matter. It's just a theory to balance the mass we see, we know exists, which doesn't fill up the universe. But we can change the climate on Earth... Right... In reality we know very little about the universe, so I just can't believe in anthropomorphic climate change... #consumption #abstractphotography #fineartphotography #pandamnit #lockdown
It's a Mass Balance Theory
Navigating Truthfulness these days is certainly a maze, with corporate social media censoring, political propaganda, activist misinformation, and actor grandstanding. Who knows what to believe!? Follow-the-money used to be an accepted criminal investigative method tracing crimes-against-humanity: motive, means, and opportunity. Now it's called conspiracy theory... #consumption #abstractphotography #fineartphotography #pandamnit #lockdown
Pathological Consumption - a Conspiracy Theory
Abstract expressionism is random, playful, colourful, and perhaps confusing. But that lack of context unleashes imagination, illustrating the cosmic mindset humanity needs to solve complex problems. Unintended consequences might occur if we muddle it up, throw everything in the blender, and attempt to produce something new. Conceptual art forces us to question reality, what exactly are we looking at - is it what we expected? "Imagination is more important than knowledge" (Albert Einstein). #consumption #abstractphotography #fineartphotography #pandamnit #lockdown
Eyebrow of the Universe.
Promoting health and wellness, art "...can enhance one's moods, emotions, and other psychological states as well as have a salient impact on important physiological parameters..." (World Health Organization). #consumption #abstractphotography #fineartphotography #pandamnit #lockdown
Crossing Lines was a great European crime show, but not enough seasons! Suggesting that green terrorists start blowing up pipelines has definitely crossed a new line of hate crime. #consumption #abstractphotography #fineartphotography #pandamnit #lockdown
Draw a Line in the Sand, Give Peace a Chance
A wraith's powerful anger is emitted in waves of energy. The creature and can steal the will to live from entire villages. Countries, even, I would say, when you have one at the helm, as we certainly do in Canada. When the people are no longer able to withstand the depression brought onto their lives by the wraith, the creature will take their souls and taxes and continue on its aimless journey. Aimless correctly describes our government, with the lowest support and credibility in history. #consumption #abstractphotography #fineartphotography #pandamnit #lockdown
Time to Escape the Wraith of Government
I worked at Kidney Lake once, a long, long time ago. I remember a biologist who wanted to count how many fish were in a particular small lake. So he poisoned it, killed them all, and got an accurate count. Of dead fish. Oh, the unintended consequences of stupidity. You can lead people to knowledge, but you can't make them think. #consumption #abstractphotography #fineartphotography #pandamnit #lockdown
I got the Crayola Blues.
Scrambled, melted, dissolved, merged round plastic lids and caps. No eggs were harmed in making this photograph. #consumption #abstractphotography #fineartphotography #pandamnit #lockdown
Maybe a Kinder Egg in the Mix...
Denial: noun. de·ni·al | di-ˈnī(-ə)l. 1) Refusal to admit the truth or reality of something. There’s my problem: I don’t believe anything that can’t be proven by real data. I’m skeptical, which is why I have respect in my engineering career. You tell me your theory, and I’ll test to prove you right or wrong. It’s difficult telling people the bad news about their theories, but quite satisfying when I can prove them right. #consumption #abstractphotography #fineartphotography #pandamnit #lockdown
The Crown did not Survive...
Unintended consequences might occur if we muddle it up, throw everything in the blender, and attempt to produce something new. Liberally misconstruing dictionary definitions of our language doesn't help. #consumption #abstractphotography #fineartphotography #pandamnit #lockdown
Remember when a Dictionary helped define language?
But that lack of context unleashes imagination, illustrating the cosmic mindset humanity needs to solve complex problems. #consumption #abstractphotography #fineartphotography #pandamnit #lockdown
Oh, the promise of technology, to ease our lives, take over redundant processes, give us more free time. What a complete farce, it's never happened. I get sick and tired of having to prove Einstein's theory of stupidity over and over: trying the same thing over and over expecting a different result. Learning the same thing over and over. Restarting over and over. Reconnecting. Reloading. Replaying. Regurgitating. #consumption #abstractphotography #fineartphotography #pandamnit #lockdown
My Faith in Technology...
Abstract expressionism is random, playful, colourful, and perhaps confusing. #consumption #abstractphotography #fineartphotography #pandamnit #lockdown
Oh my my. Oh my my. I went to the doctor. Knocked at his door. And he said (man) what can I do you for. And I said doctor. For a start. The (country) I love has done and broke my heart. (Credit to Jill Barber). Inept government, at all levels, has turned my patriotism into an embaressing sham. Taxes, inflation, the cost-of-living, propaganda, corruption, ethics violations, interference, control, are all through-the-roof. We now have bonafide terrorists, convicted criminals, and sexual predators in charge. Fascist tyranny, terrorizing the masses into feardome, turning democracy into nothing more than a theoretical philosophy. Socialism has no history of ever working out, but our democracy has also failed us. #consumption #abstractphotography #fineartphotography #pandamnit #lockdown
Oh my my. Oh my my.
Creating material adds a new dimension: "Imagination is more important than knowledge" (Albert Einstein). #consumption #abstractphotography #fineartphotography #pandamnit #lockdown
Road trips to acquire new material have totalled over 50,000 km around the Prairies, BC, criss-crossing Canada from St. John's to Tofino, while also exploring New Zealand, Spain, Germany, Netherlands, and Belgium. Then our three-month trip to the EU got cancelled. So I needed something to do at home at very little expense. Consumption has been my #Lockdown project. The first time I've ever tried to create subject matter, or material, to photograph, and my first project with a social commentary: pathological consumption being humanities real problem. Normally I just do art for art's sake... #consumption #abstractphotography #fineartphotography #pandamnit
Literally, one of the plastic bits exploded into flames...
Fine art is distracting, a brief mental holiday, relaxing and enjoyable. #consumption #abstractphotography #fineartphotography #pandamnit #lockdown
Flowing down that slippery slope.
Thinking critically about my vision... These relatively small flat panels (8" x 10" or 10" x 12") have been photographed with a sharp macro lens and double-polarizing technique (polarized macro flash light ring and polarized lens) to eliminate reflection and glare, and saturate colours. #consumption #abstractphotography #fineartphotography #pandamnit #lockdown
Thinking Critically About My Vision
Spun be all of our present first-world governments. The destruction of human rights and economies is Impalpable. The elite power grab is incomprehensible to working class citizens who have no particular ambition for wealth. The inflation tax will destroy the middle class. I've spent 45 years contributing positively to civilization for this? I don't want any part of it, I want out... #consumption #abstractphotography #fineartphotography #pandamnit #lockdown
Destroying History
Conceptual art forces us to question reality, what exactly are we looking at - is it what we expected? #consumption #abstractphotography #fineartphotography #pandamnit #lockdown
Contrarian Voices Speaking Through the Static
Not a fun place to be... #consumption #abstractphotography #fineartphotography #pandamnit #lockdown
Three O'clock, Road Block.
Ghost of Minion coming back to haunt. Fun colours melting Minions. #consumption #abstractphotography #fineartphotography #pandamnit #lockdown
Minion Melting Madness.
Detail from the Hollywood Squares panel. Not to be confused with reality. #consumption #abstractphotography #fineartphotography #pandamnit #lockdown
Minion Mashup
Art is a conversation starter, something to wonder about, figure out, contemplate, philosophize over, especially in the abstract. #consumption #abstractphotography #fineartphotography #pandamnit #lockdown
Zippers are dangerous, I prefer a button up fly. Considering my opinion, I need to zip it up more often, don't want to offend those following the doctrine, the political rhetoric, government subsidized media propaganda. #consumption #abstractphotography #fineartphotography #pandamnit #lockdown
Zip it!
Recycling is more hype than reality. We conscientiously, benevolently, fill up our green bins thinking we are 'saving the planet.' Then the City can't find anywhere to ship our junk, so it goes to land fill. We've been fooled! #consumption #abstractphotography #fineartphotography #pandamnit #lockdown
There's a File for this Somewhere, Right?
Corb Lund 'wrote a new song on a five dollar bill'. I already have an image called Five Cents, from the Dereliction project… My first rock concert was to see the Dave Clark Five. There's lots of famous Fabulous Fives. And there's Cinco de Mayo, which has been subverted to sell more beer. #consumption #abstractphotography #fineartphotography #pandamnit #lockdown
Fabulous Five.
Makes me wonder what techniques we can use to defend ourselves from modern savage terrorists, who have infiltrated western civilization with their virtuous insanity. Spiking trees, setting fire to tire fires on railroad tracks, chaining themselves to industrial access gates, storming personal residences. Then we elect them to Parliament! #consumption #abstractphotography #fineartphotography #pandamnit #lockdown
Circular Defence Mechanisms is what we need Against Green Terrorists
Without immunity from any sort of virus. Without reliable, affordable energy. Without a supply chain to feed us. Without education, training, work, jobs, careers. Without freedom to move about, travel, relocate, emigrate. With incompetent governments bent on tyrannical fascism, entrenching corruption, removing human rights, subjecting entire populations to medical experimentation, disavowing the Nuremberg Code of Ethics. Time to protest en mass! Again, like we did in the 60's to end the Vietnam war. Been there, done that, despite the tear gas. #consumption #abstractphotography #fineartphotography #pandamnit #lockdown
Time Again for Mass Protest