#inksanity

“I hate it when storm clouds roll in, heralded by dazzling claps of thunder and lightning that boast an ocean of tears. This majestic performance of bad temper manages to overshadow my pathetic attempts

“The Polito form is dead, insect. Are you afraid? What is it you fear? The end of your trivial existence? When the history of my glory is written, your species shall only be a footnote to my magnificence.”

“Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops.

“Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.” ― Isaac Asimov New #inksanity #helenbirdart 2017

“The piggies were not to be disturbed-” ― Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead by #helenbirdart #inksanity 2017

“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.” ― Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow brand new #helenbirdart #inksanity 2017 collection

" As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election

"I play fictitious characters often solving fictitious problems. I believe mankind has looked at climate change in the same way, as if it were a fiction." Leonardo DiCaprio #helenbirdart #inksanity

“There’s no better way to overpower a trickle of doubt than with a flood of naked truth.” Netflix’s 'House of Cards' Frank Underwood played by Kevin Spacey #helenbirdart #inksanity simple doodle from 2011

“So,” I demanded, trying to sound confident, “where can we find this trod to New Orleans?” “The frost giant ruins,” Ash replied, looking thoughtful. “Very close to Mab’s court.” At Puck’s glare, he shrugged

A #helenbirdart #inksanity from 2013...one of my all time favorites & hangs on the wall of a collector in San Antonio, Texas.

a hyper-color-ink from a couple of years ago #helenbirdart #inksanity 2014

...an early bird ink drawing penned with minimal supplies whilst living in a car circa 2011 "Phædrus... ...because of his training in logic, was aware that every dilemma affords not two but three

'Pyramid scheme' 2013 "Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases. Washington has obelisks and pyramids and underground

"Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile: Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever." Muhammad Iqbal 'blue nile' #helenbirdart

'There is no time, only the eternal now.' Alan Watts #helenbirdart #inksanity early summer collection 2017

"Way out in space, and way out in time. Billions of years ago, you were a big bang, but now you're a complicated human being. And then we cut ourselves off, and don't feel that we're still the big

'Rock Pool'an earlier piece ink/gel pens in black art paper #helenbirdart #inksanity

one of man's greatest inventions... 'bubble wrap' #inksanity #helenbirdart from 2013

“Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate