We have survived another CELEBRATION DAY. This year, we had a very low key holiday, (no police visited us this year! Unfortunately, this is only a HALF-joke. Our record for a 4th of July party, at the height of our hedonism, is having the police at the house THREE TIMES. We're older and more tired now...)
To quote the movie DAZED AND CONFUSED on the Independence Day holiday: "...remember what you're celebrating, the fact that a bunch aristocratic white males didn't want to pay their taxes!" And to quote the Simpsons this holiday allow us to "Celebrate the independence of your nation by blowing up a small part of it." Stupid but true...
What you gonna do??? Personally, I'm gonna share some art...
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30 Jun. 2023
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"The Electrical Event" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Ultra fine point Sharpie on reclaimed cardboard with digital embellishments and color.] There were a few witnesses to the event. They will be missed... ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1F94smAkoLSgNT7PLaxYj7Ba1SKqXfGjsY/498
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"Woodpecker Entity" by RFY (HF)
[Digital drawing created in a no-longer-supported, free app on my phone.] It LOOKED like a woodpecker, but it wasn't. We KNEW that it wasn't. We wouldn't be fooled.... (Only---we WERE fooled, weren't we...) ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://nftshowroom.com/gallery/richardfyates_back-to-primitivity_woodpecker-entity-by-rfy-hf
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"Industrial Decay" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Crayon on construction paper with digital embellishments, moshing, and digital color manipulation.] Hand drawn image run through the MOSH MACHINE, which gave the already abstract piece a freakish, psychedelic, melting texture. Pleased. Yes. Pleased... ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1F94smAkoLSgNT7PLaxYj7Ba1SKqXfGjsY/499
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"Things That I Would Like to Tell Stories About:" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Ultra fine point Sharpie on reclaimed cardboard with digital embellishments and color.] Funny thing about telling stories is, if you have a pen and some paper OR vocal cords, you can just START making these stories. Nothing stopping you! (Or me!) ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1F94smAkoLSgNT7PLaxYj7Ba1SKqXfGjsY/500
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"Ghost Leaf Snake" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Mixed media composition. Hand drawn elements on paper, digital color, digital manipulation, moshing, layers and effects.] What do these three elements have in common? (There is no right answer...) ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
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"Hell Hate No Fury" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Crayon, felt pen, brush pen, color change marker, colored pencil, and cardboard collage on paper with digital embellishments and color.] I drew this several weeks ago, but it really seems to fit in with today's hate-filled Supreme Court decision, allowing people to openly discriminate against others in the name of religion.
I know this is the wrong way to look at it, but I wouldn't WANT someone who openly hates me to make my products or take my picture or cook my food. Businesses with policies that support discrimination will be easier to identify and AVOID, now, at the very least. However, I also recognize that such a historic SCOTUS decision is going to EMBOLDEN evil hearted groups to be that much more horrible to people who they don't see eye-to-eye with. Serious bullshit... So much for a loving god creating creatures in his loving image... (Anyone who's actually read the book knows this isn't the story [stories] that are told within those pages...There's blood... LOTS of blood... And the horrible things that people DO in the name of that book and that religion are, frankly, disgusting and unforgivable...)
So...here's some art... ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1F94smAkoLSgNT7PLaxYj7Ba1SKqXfGjsY/501
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3 Jul. 2023
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I posted this to my Bluesky account a few days ago...
"We've got some GOING OUT today!! #mailart #postalart #postcards #art
STAY CONNECTED!!!"
https://bsky.app/profile/richardfyates.bsky.social/post/3jzi6w4jheb2a
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And I posted THIS to my Bluesky account yesterday...
"OH! The horror!!!
(They made me go outside.....)"
https://bsky.app/profile/richardfyates.bsky.social/post/3jzlacfxyv626
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"Chillin' in the Fackin' Backyard" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Photograph with a tiny, little, digital drawing...] Took this in the backyard with my phone. There was a thin moon in the sky, and I felt it needed a bit of a "pump up!" Woooo! (Suburbia.) ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1F94smAkoLSgNT7PLaxYj7Ba1SKqXfGjsY/502
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"Mice Eat Cheese" by RFY (HF) & FEH (TT)
[Ink on notebook page, digital drawing, moshing, layers, and digital color over strange aspirations and grass huts.] Expectations are invoked in order to be destroyed... Let the good times roll.... ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool) & Felicity Echo Hanson (Toddler Terror)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1F94smAkoLSgNT7PLaxYj7Ba1SKqXfGjsY/503
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Time to get back to work, now that we are existing in NORMAL TIME again...
(HA HA HA! "Normal..." What a joke!)
---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)