"There is no escape. You can't be a vagabond and an artist and still be a solid citizen, a wholesome, upstanding man. You say yes to the sunlight and pure fantasies so you have to say yes to the filth and the nausea. Everything is within you, gold and mud, happiness and pain, the laughter of childhood and the apprehension of death. Say yes to everything, shirk nothing. Don't try to lie to yourself. You are not a solid citizen. You are not a Greek. You are not harmonious, or the master of yourself. You are a bird in the storm. Let it storm! Let it drive you! How much have you lied! A thousand times, even in your poems and books, you have played the harmonious man, the wise man, the happy, the enlightened man. In the same way, men attacking in war have played heroes, while their bowels twitched. My God, what a poor ape, what a fencer in the mirror man is- particularly the artist- particularly myself!"
-Herman Hesse
Favourite Visual Artist
Anselm Kiefer, Andy Goldsworthy, Andrew Wyeth, Frida Kahlo, Kiki Smith, Louise Bourgeois, Carl Beam
Favourite Books
Crime and Punishment, Demian, Letters to a Young Poet, 1984, Walden,
Favourite Writers
Herman Hesse, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, George Orwell, Albert Camus, Franz Kafka, Anais Nin, Emma Goldman, Henry David Thoreau, Ranier Maria Rilke, Martin Luther King Jr., Noam Chomsky
Other Interests
Philosophy, History, Dinner Table Politics, Wabi Sabi, Shit Disturbing, Travel, Violent Weather, Sushi, Manifesto Writing, The Ocean, Languages, Neo-liberal Smack Downs, Alternative Technologies, Backpacking, Plants, British Comedy, Anarchism, Unicorns.