Road Sweeping

“The heart lies and the head plays tricks on us, but the eyes see true." - George R. R. Martin

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“May you always be inspired to colour the world and dance.” - R.F. 

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Palette knife and acrylic. 

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Flit and fly; flutter by.

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Specimen A

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Strawberry Fields.

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Manic attempt at doll-making. 

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A Sea of Neurons

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“To manage and keep up a brain Is no easy job, it is plain That’s why a great many Don’t ever use any Thus avoiding the care and the strain.”

-Anthony H. Euwer

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This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

Ralph Waldo Emerson on Self-Reliance

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And......Checkmate!

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Madmen who ceaselessly complain of Nature, learn that all your misfortunes arise from yourselves!

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Sapere aude!

Kant

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“sometimes the personalities at the helm of the madness industry are, with their drives and obsessions, as mad in their own way as those they study. And that relatively ordinary people are, more and more, defined by their maddest edges.” 

― Jon Ronson, The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry