Gaia, Alex Grey and 9/11, day 9and 10

9OCT12

One of my favorite podcasts in the Joe Rogan Experence.  His guest Alex Grey was very a great guest on Joe’s show.  As anyone who has taken any time to see what I have written about over the years, I tend to wrote about the 9/11 often and I work in the images of the WTC often in my art.  Pre 9/11, Alex Grey makes references too many cases of serendipity in various artists’ art during this time and he specifically takes of his painting, Gaia; that he painted in 1989.  Anyone looking at this can clearly see that this is a premonition about 9/11.  Joe and Alex spoke at length about art, artists’ and 9/11.  Mr Grey wasn’t even aware until people started e-mailing him about is painting and the this strange connection to 9/11.  In the painting, as one can see in the images above, that there are two planes, the iconic image of the Twin Towers and a penis with horns (Dick Cheney is my guess), a man who looks like a ringer for George W. Bush and an 80’s looking terrorist before terrorist and terrorism captured the villain role from the Communist and Communism.

10OCT12

I was in Boston for October 10th, were I was to take a turn in on going medical condition that I have and I would hit a milestone where I was going to put a lot of physical pain behind me and I would be given an opportunity to begin to heal again.  It was on this day that I joined the Lance Armstrong club, Livestrong.  It is sad that due to the reported steroid rumors that surround Armstrong, he has created some distance between him and the organization for pubic relation reasons.

It was a great day.  I read about an Afghanistan Vet, a Marine, who wrote a wonderful story about coming home from a crazy deployment and how that journey felt to him and what he experienced the first days of his homecoming.

I have been tracking the death toll from the war in the various images that I am leaving in this 21 project and the fact that the numbers of KIAs in Afghanistan is always growing.  I do not watch much TV, epically the news because I have Internet connection and I can get a non corporate media perceptive here on line.  Yet it does seem to me that during Viet Nam that the dead in the war was always a news issue in a way it doesn't seem to be today.  I can't wrap my head around on why this isn't a campaign issue during the Presidential elections!  What a crazy world we live in and what a crazy war this present war America finds itself in.