Essays

This page will include writings that discuss various topics related to artistic expression, Monians, and other things of interest.


Table of Contents

Bruce Chatwin’s In Patagonia – A Review - Mar. 2024
Henry Darger and the Artist Inside - Nov. 2023
Condensation in the Arts - Oct. 2023
Monians Four Years On - Oct. 2023
The Total Work of Art - Oct. 2023
Yukio Mishima, Heroic Artist - Sept. 2023
Blasting Through Neocities - Sept. 2023

Bruce Chatwin’s In Patagonia – A Review

Mar.22 2024

Bruce Chatwin was a British adventurer, writer, and explorer. He was born in the 1940’s and died in the 1980’s. In his short life he explored many continents, including Asia and South America, and wrote books about his travels.

Chatwin’s book, “In Patagonia” (1977), can be considered his most famous work. It is the story of his journey through the Patagonian region of South America. According to the map included in the book, Patagonia consists of Argentina and Chile. The southern most tip of Patagonia, Tierra Del Fuego, is one of the most southern areas in the world.

This is a short book at only 186 pages. The shorter books tend to be more interesting, and that is true of In Patagonia.

Chatwin begins his story with a tale from his childhood. His grandmother told him of his ancestor Charley Milward, and how he brought a piece of skin from a Brontosaurus back to England from Patagonia. This is the tale which inspired Chatwin to visit Patagonia.

The second chapter begins Chatwin’s narrative of his travels through South America. He is suddenly in Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina. How did he get there? He doesn’t explain, he is simply there. Then he begins to relate unusual anecdotes, which make up much of this book. For example, he meets a woman who knew Che Guevara. He then states that the Argentina of the 1970’s is just like Tsarist Russia, which he learns from his own experience, and the story his friend told him of a White Russian’s perceptions of Argentina.

I think Chatwin’s purpose for visiting Patagonia must have been to recapture the mystery he felt about it in his childhood. He meets many people, and he never stays with anyone for long. He also considers the history of Patagonia, and weaves in tales of the 16th century ship captain John Davis into his tale.

John Davis took a very dangerous voyage to Patagonia, which ended up influencing Samuel Taylor Coleridge to write “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”. Of similar interest, on page 140 there is the quote, “Go to sleep Ugly, you little Fool, you won’t feel the drowning.” This is a statement that a bully said to Charley Milward when he was young and serving on a ship during a bad storm. But he did not drown, and ended up having many more adventures. This quote became the basis for part of a song called “The Island” by the Decemberists. They ended up changing the quote to make a sort of tragic story, which is very interesting considering its origins.

There is also a large ongoing story about the legendary outlaws Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. In the 1960’s a film was made about them, where they were shown to have been shot and killed in South America. Chatwin speaks at length about the different names they used, and how one of them was said to have lived into old age.

Chatwin also spends time relating Charles Darwin’s connections with Patagonia. When Darwin visited South America he ended up meeting one of the native inhabitants of Tierra Del Fuego, who they named Jemmy Button. Button sees his tribes enemies from the deck of the Beagle, and calls them “monkeys”.

“For the mere sight of the Fuegians helped trigger off the theory that Man had evolved from an ape-like species and that some men had evolved further than others.” (122) It would seem that Darwin’s theory of evolution derives from Darwin’s view that the native South Americans were backward savages. It is then not surprising that in the 1860’s, some of the Fuegians attacked and killed some English people while at their church service. Chatwin suggests that Jemmy Button was the brains behind that incident.

“In Patagonia” consists of 94 short chapters, each one averaging about 2 pages. Each chapter is like a poem. They are condensed passages describing places and people. Even though they are brief, the descriptions are vivid, and on the whole give the impression that Patagonia is an unusual and dream-like place.

By the end of the book, Chatwin has learned that his ancestor’s dinosaur skin was actually the skin from an ancient giant sloth. This reality does not change Chatwin’s essential romantic vision of Patagonia. He is able to retrieve a piece of this sloth skin, which was part of his purpose for his quest.

I have the sense here that the journey was more important than the destination. People appear suddenly, and depart just as suddenly, and we won’t ever know what became of them. The desire to be constantly on the move is necessary for a good travel writer, and Chatwin certainly liked to be always going somewhere.

“In Patagonia” can be considered to be a poetic work of travel writing. It is not surprising that Patagonia has inspired poems from such poets as Coleridge, Rimbaud, Baudelaire, and Poe. Patagonia may still hold its dream-like fascination for many people. Is Patagonia the same today as when Chatwin visited it in the 1970’s? I am sure that many things have changed. But perhaps its essential poetic elements remain the same.

The book ends with Chatwin getting on board a boat that will take him back to England. On the boat he is traveling with a Chilean man who loves to recite poetry, such as that of Lorca. Many people tell Chatwin that this man is crazy, but Chatwin does not pass any judgment on him.

Chatwin holds himself as the impartial observer, seeing everything, taking it all in, and laying it out for you to draw your own conclusions. Even so, I sense that he has a poetic aspect to his character, which is essential for being a good traveler. “In Patagonia” will appeal to anyone who likes poetry, history, travel narratives, and short books. Its brevity is an invitation to read it over again.


Henry Darger and the Artist Inside

Nov.15,2023

Some years ago I was reading a list of the longest books ever written. One story stood out in particular, that of Henry Darger’s “Realms of the Unreal”. This led me to discover the PBS documentary which presents an attempt to get inside of Henry Darger’s mind.

He was born in Chicago in 1892 and died there in 1973. Darger spent his life working as a janitor in Catholic hospitals. He had no family and few friends, and he seemed to not have much going on. But when he had to go into the hospital before he died, his landlord found his artworks in his room. Darger was apparently horrified, but as he said, it was too late to do anything about it by then.

For some reason art critics have called Henry Darger’s work “outsider art”. This term seems to be used to apply to any artist that doesn’t seek acceptance from other people. Or it applies to artists that don’t have formal training, and whose artworks may appear childish and unsophisticated.

Irwin Chusid’s book, “Songs in the Key of Z”, is an attempt to gather all the known musicians who produced unusual music. Naturally the quality of the music varies, but there are some genuinely interesting personalities covered in Chusid’s book. Highlights include Wesley Willis, Daniel Johnston, Jandek, and Bingo Gazingo.

One of the attractions to the so called “outsider artist” is their often enigmatic character. Henry Darger diligently produced thousands of paintings and tens of thousands of pages of writings. Yet he is said to have been largely unknown to his friends and neighbors.

No one really knows whether Darger had something wrong with his mind. Willis and Johnston were considered to have schizophrenia, while Jandek and Gazingo are simply considered unusual.

The transcription of Darger’s “Realms of the Unreal” has yet to appear in a full publication. In 2002 J.M. MacGregor published a very thorough study of Henry Darger. MacGregor suggests that Darger was a kind of Christian mystic, similar to St. Augustine and Spinoza, and even the Book of Job.

The Darger documentary details that Darger’s Catholic faith was very important to him. He attended Mass regularly. The Vivian Girls, title characters in his main story, are said to attend Mass and receive communion daily.

Many scholars of Darger’s work have wondered why he describes such violent events in his stories. However, such events are common place in the records of the Christian martyrs. For example, the Japanese Catholic martyrs of the 17th century were often tortured to death in very terrible ways. Darger was likely aware of the Catholic veneration of martyrs, and was incorporating this theme into his story.

There is a sense in which Darger’s faith makes his need to create art more understandable than that of other “outsider” artists. His works were produced for God, and since God is the highest audience no other audience was necessary.

The fascination with these unusual artists seems to come from trying to figure out why they do what they do. Many of them have created writings, pictures, and music, which is supposed to be outside of the social conventions of the late 20th century. But there is a sense of possibility I can see, because these are the artists who have personal visions which they believe in.

It is sometimes necessary to think outside the box to represent one’s personal experience of reality. Unusual art tends to resonate with unusual characters, people who have had unusual experiences.

Darger continually worked on his art and stories from 1909 until 1972 when he was too sick to continue. His neighbors thought he was simply collecting rubbish outside, but everything he collected served a purpose.

His story, Realms of the Unreal, concerns a war between the Christian nation of Abiennia and the Child slave owning nation of Glandalenia. The Abiennians have a picture of Jesus on their flag. Darger’s pictures often show the evil Glandalenians as wearing the grey uniforms of Confederate soldiers. Darger wrote that the child slavery in his story was much worse than what Uncle Tom suffered. He even wrote songs for his story, with one of them being based upon the song "John Brown’s Body".

One interesting aspect of Darger’s tale is his willingness to mix fact with fiction. He wrote in the character of John Manly as one of the evil Glandalenian generals. John Manly was someone that Darger knew as a boy, and he wrote that Manly was very fierce when angry.

Many people have wondered why Darger wrote about children. But most people who knew him concluded he was basically a childlike man. He wanted to adopt a child, but his appeal was rejected. Seeing as how he later believed he did not make enough money to support a dog, the Catholic authorities probably figured he definitely did not make enough to support a child.

In the Darger documentary there is covered Darger’s search to find the photo of the murdered girl Elsie Paroubek. He had cut her picture out and then somehow lost it. He wrote in his diary of setting up a shrine and praying daily for the return of this picture. Darger had written Elsie into his story as a character that is martyred for the cause of the Abiennians. When he fails to find the picture, he writes himself into his tale as Judas Darger, fighting for the godless Glandalenians.

Long before Gonzo journalism, Darger was writing himself into his stories. His view of himself in the story has some ambiguity, as he serves on both sides of the war, depending on the strength of his faith at the time of writing. His stories are a combination of diary, adventure tale, and history. But would Darger have called his stories fiction? To suggest they are fiction is to say that they are not real. But even so, Darger lived these stories every day of his life.

His neighbor Kyoko Lerner suggests that Darger had an extremely active imagination. Even though he lived a humble life washing dishes and scrubbing floors, he produced a body of work which raises the importance of his life. It could be said that people are remembered for the way their lives affected others. Darger’s life was largely private, and so he did not affect many people while alive. But his artwork has provided a very large impact on many people.

What initially interested me about Darger is that he devoted his entire life to his art, and he produced a huge body of work. He did not do it to make money or be famous, but he did it because he loved doing it. That is probably why his art is unlike anyone else’s.

It’s a kind of contradiction, considering that Darger based much of his art off of advertising images which he traced or sketched. Yet his compositions are totally different because he arranged these images to serve his own purpose. Even though he did not have much money, he still managed to create huge and interesting works of art.

Even though Henry Darger was not known during his life, he has become famous now because of his artwork. His work is preserved in art museums in Chicago and New York City. He is widely hailed as one of the most original and unusual American artists. His life serves as an example that faithful devotion will pay off in the end. Darger’s works will continue to provide inspiration for many artists in the future. I hope that someday his writings are finally collected and published. His work is only beginning to be studied and understood.


Condensation in the Arts

Oct.11 2023

I can take it for granted that works of art can be pretty interesting. But they can also take up a lot of space. Condensed art works help to make the best use of a limited amount of space.

I have often seen it said that poems are more condensed than prose. So it would make sense to get some poem books, as opposed to a bunch of prose books.

One of the troubles that springs from reading poetry is its condensation. If the meanings behind the metaphors are good, then it’s all fine. If the meanings are not fully there, then it’s going to be troublesome. So it looks like there’s got to be some conscious arrangements made.

Sometimes there can be no substitute for an original art work. An original oil painting by Rembrandt cannot be adequately reproduced in a picture book. But a picture book can at least point you in the right direction.

In some cases art is condensed in a form which results in loss of quality. It could be a cheap paperback reprint of a classic tale, or an MP3 drawn out of a CD. These lower quality artworks serve for wide distribution, but quantity is no substitute for quality.

A chamber orchestra can be listened to on a recording, but experiencing it in person is to understand the music on a higher level. To read a book yourself is one thing, but to hear it read to you by its author is much better.

Artworks serve to express humanly perceived experiences. The more fully an artist experiences life, the better their artwork will be. The artistic expression is a condensation of the artist’s perception.

Life itself is like a symphony. There are many different voices that sound together, sometimes in opposition, and sound to the rhythm of a conductor. Not all conductors are equal.

Many novels take a single grain of feeling and stretch it out over hundreds of pages. The best artists take several threads and weave them together harmoniously. Something like the Music of the Spheres…

Who taught Vivaldi, Bach, Beethoven, Petrarch, Verdi…?

They learned from experience…

Poetry is one of the highest forms of art because it is composed of condensed meanings. Most novelists had to start by writing poetry, such as Hermann Hesse. Rilke knew how to write poetry, so he was able to write his novel, “The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge”. Novelists without poetic training tend to write lines without any music in them. But there must be music there, or it is without feeling.

Novels tell a story, poems sing a song. The song ought to tell a story, and most certainly ought to be musical. Since life itself is musical, art ought to reflect that.

Certain languages lend themselves to poetry. The Irish and Welsh languages retain their inherent musical character. This is why the Irish and Welsh have produced so many good poets. They have the music in their blood.

Prose sacrifices condensed music for step by step explanations. The parable is certainly a higher form of communication, and more on the poetic side of prose writing.

A symbolic image can quickly represent a complicated message. These symbols tend to follow a logic of their own.

The best art is a heightened form of truth in reality. This is why Keats will continue to be read, while many others will be passed by.


Monians Four Years On

Oct.10 2023

In Oct. of 2019 I began what became the Monians comic strip. The whole process was something which now seems to have been of a necessity.

I had once made comics with paper and pencil. By 2019 I had moved to using computers. But I didn’t mind doing the whole thing in MS Paint, since it was simply for fun.

The genesis for the project was to try and represent visually some of the ideas which interested me. I wanted to show a conflict between primal mythic forces. These forces seemed to exist at both the far future and the distant past.

Through 2020 most strips were consisting of single page stories. In 2021 I decided to move to doing each number on a sheet of paper with pencil, then colored digitally. By 2022 I decided to start doing the inking digitally by going over the penciled lines. So by 2022 the ground was set for doing more detailed storylines.

In Dec. of 2022 I began a lengthy story about Pinkmonia’s quest. This ended up being one of the most interesting sequence of Monians numbers. It’s also the first time that I had really tried to put a sequential story into action in that way.

The whole process has been a lot of trial and error. There have been many consultations between the writing side and the drawing side of my mind. And of course, it’s always been necessary to seek out interesting plot points.

Doing Monians has taught me a lot about the artistic process. I’ve had to figure out new methods in order to get across what I’ve had in my mind’s eye. Perhaps in another few decades I’ll finally be able to get across what the whole thing has really appeared like to me.

It’s been something of an attempt to bring out a Total Work of Art, though there has yet to be a Monians musical. Well, sure enough it’s got to be coming along one of these days.


The Total Work of Art

Oct.9 2023

It needn’t be said that there is no purpose for art. Even if it may not serve a purpose for some, it does ultimately serve a purpose. The purpose of art must be to cast an eye upon the fullness of reality.

There is an interesting dynamic between the left brain and the right brain. The left brain appears to be focused and logical, the right brain appears to be illogical and unfocused. It’s something like the difference between looking at a single tree and looking at an entire forest.

If there is too much weight upon the left brain, everything suffers. And not to much purpose…

So it would appear that maintaining a balance between the two brain domains is necessary for harmonic living.

All of this strikes me as somewhat like Chesterton’s “Orthodoxy”. The world is either interesting, or it isn’t. If it is interesting, then it is worthwhile to be there. If it is not interesting, then it’s all a sham. But in any case, it’s all been shown to be quite interesting.

Some brains are suited for traveling in straight lines. Others are suited for running round in curves and circles. It’s tremendously more interesting to take the scenic route, that’s what I’ve come to see.

What about this Total Work of Art? That’s what I was meaning to get to. It’s something like a painting, a poem, and a play, all wrapped into one. It’s not quite a motion picture, and it’s not quite a virtual reality…

I don’t think anyone can design this Total Work of Art for you. It’s a personal sort of thing.

It sounds kind of like a Kabuki play. In a sense that is what it is.

Art is a heightening of experience. So if all of your senses are raised to their fullest experience, then you are getting close to that Total Work of Art.

Besides the usual senses there is a sense of reality behind reality. That’s intuitive perception.

Without trying to control reality you can gain a better experience of it. But it’s sort of a give and take.

That left brain thinking tries too hard to control everything. Then it shuts out the chance of thinking outside the box.

It occurs to me that some things are not easily expressed directly. You can make a sculpture of a living creature, but can you make one that represents Freedom? It’s not so easy, but it can be done with a little creativity.

Art has always served to express strongly felt experiences. The monuments of the stone age remain, but their meanings remain little understood.

Leo Tolstoy understood art. He was a true humanitarian. He understood that the purpose of art is to improve life on earth.

On the other hand, Baudelaire was a poet who produced masterful art, perhaps without trying to make it understandable to future readers. Even so, I feel a definite sense of recognition when looking at Baudelaire. He is inseparable from his art.

What about Archetypes? Certainly a glance at symbolic psychology will show you something for consideration…

The theory of Archetypes is interesting. As applied to myths they can be seen throughout the world to serve similar purposes. So you might expect to recognize some Archetypes when examining works of art.

Music is for the Muses. The best poetry is harmonious with music. There is little difference between the folk song (medieval) and the poem. A good song lends itself to dancing.

The total work of art engages your body and soul. You can ask Bill Monroe for the details.

The whole thing sounds very interesting. It’s about time some new Rilke sprouted up to provide the world with another poetic novel.

Traditional and digital art are like the two hemispheres of the brain. You shouldn’t leave home without both of them.


Yukio Mishima, Heroic Artist

Sept.28 2023

Yukio Mishima was born in 1925 and died in 1970. When I was first learning about Mishima, I was struck by his dramatic death in 1970. He had attempted to inspire the Japanese military to restore the Emperor to power. But he failed, and committed seppuku, while one of his young associates beheaded him with a sword.

That incident looms large in the history of Yukio Mishima. But it is also true that he was one of the greatest literary artists in Japan during the 20th century. How could these two paths, the political and the artistic, exist within him?

Perhaps it lies in Mishima’s sheltered childhood. He was sickly, and when WWII arrived, he was declared unfit to serve. Japan’s loss of that war in 1945 meant the end of the rule of its emperor. It seems that Mishima never got over being rejected for military service. At the same time, he had been awarded a gold watch by the emperor.

When Mishima was a child he used to admire images of St. Sebastian, who was martyred by being shot through with arrows. Mishima’s death is analogous to the death of that saint, though Mishima died not for the Catholic faith, but for the Emperor.

Mishima’s life was bound up with his art. He finished his final novel on the day he “chose his own fate.” His literary style is marked by deliberate precision of expression. Mishima was brought up to revere his samurai ancestors. This reverence was very strong with him.

When the Emperor was forced to renounce his claim to divinity, it was a point of departure for the Japanese nation. The subsequent American occupation marked the beginning of a Japan marked by materialism. Mishima’s literature is very critical of the materialism in postwar Japan. Even so, Mishima managed to have a successful literary career during this period.

Ivan Morris knew Mishima and wrote “The Nobility of Failure” in order to explain why Mishima acted as he did. Morris gives many examples of Japanese figures in history who seem to fail in their objectives, but are still honored by the Japanese as being noble. Morris seems to be saying that the Japanese have always respected someone who would give everything for something they believe in.

Mishima’s actions certainly fit Morris’s criteria for a hero who is noble despite his failure. Morris compares Mishima to the young kamikaze pilots during WWII. They gave their lives for Japan, and despite losing the war, they are still respected.

Mishima’s suicide could also be compared to General Nogi’s seppuku upon learning of the death of the Emperor Meiji. In Mishima’s case he was acting to restore the Japan that existed before 1945. It seems today that there was little chance of his success.

Perhaps Mishima was trying his hardest to avert Japan from continuing down a road of destruction. His actions were noble, though he probably would have served Japan better had he lived into old age. By ending his life in 1970, Mishima removed himself from the battle.

Since his death many people have attempted to change Yukio Mishima into something he was not. He was not a materialist or a subjectivist, he was a Japanese artist loyal to his roots.

Mishima was deeply influenced by Western artistic traditions. Thucydides, the Greek General and author of “The Peloponnesian War”, is comparable in the combination of thought and action in one character. Such is also the case with Sir Philip Sydney and Ernest Hemingway.

Mishima was never constricted to a single form of expression. He wrote plays, short stories, novels, starred in films, and underwent strict physical training. His book “Sun and Steel” recounts the process by which he developed his muscles into a strong physical condition.

Perhaps Mishima wanted to die being in peak physical condition and not live into old age. It would seem to me that it would have been a greater challenge for Mishima to both maintain his convictions and live into old age. It would seem to me that his particular outlook on life would be very valuable if he were alive today.

As much as Mishima had a duty to Japan’s past, he also had a duty to its future. The manner of his death meant that for decades he was considered mad, and by extension this cast doubt on any opposition to materialism in Japan. Time is now shifting such that Mishima is being embraced for being a sublime idealist. This was inevitable.

In spite of his failure to achieve his goals, Mishima is a heroic artist. He lives in the dreams of all those who have had to grapple with him. He remains especially important to those artists who maintain a flame of idealism within themselves.

Mishima recommended a book called “Hagakure” by Yamamoto Tsunetomo. This book is popularized as declaring that “the way of the samurai is found in death.” But its author was strictly forbidden from committing seppuku, and instead became a monk and wrote what became the “Hagakure”. Perhaps because Mishima praised it the “Hagakure” has been promoted in a one sided manner.

My reading of “Hagakure” presented me with a compassionate view of Japanese philosophy. It is one of the few books which I have read and re-read several times. The wisdom contained within it was enough to convince me that Yukio Mishima was much more than what his critics have made of him.

It would have been better if Mishima could have lived to old age, and then recorded what he learned, as Tsunetomo did. As it stands, Mishima did leave a large volume of written work for us to study. Even so, it would have been great to have his thoughts on Japanese events of the 1990’s and onward.

It seems that every artist is made up of a mixture of elements. Mishima’s steadfastness in his convictions allowed him to become a great author. It also led him to choose a violent death. Though this was unfortunate, there is no way to change those events.

He left this world much too soon, but he left a body of work that is only beginning to be discovered and understood. Mishima’s life, his writings, his idealism, will attain a position in the future greater than they did during his life. This too, was also inevitable.


Blasting Through Neocities

Sept.28 2023

Neocities, or Geocities, it comes down to the same thing. In the future there may be many more websites with similar names.

I didn’t have many expectations of Neocities. When I arrived there, I found that many people were presenting their web pages. Some were new, and some were as old as five years or more.

What was it all about? It seemed like people were trying to go back to some point in the past. Yes, the past is an undiscovered country. I could see a lot of HTML, some CSS, and even some Javascript. But you know, it was all Greek to me.

Form is the shape of content. Certainly there was a lot of form, and there was even a fair bit of content. People were posting about their lives. They posted pictures, images, and even music. It made me wonder how all of these things could exist there, within such a maze of variations.

Neocities to me seems appealing because it allows you to have a lot of control in presentation. Other more popular sites tend to offer prearranged methods of presentation. Facebook and Instagram have rigid standards of presentation. They instead want their users to focus upon providing their content. But recall Marshall McLuhan – The Medium IS the Message.

It was a good thing that I remembered that statement. Taking it into account, the mediums of Facebook and of Instagram, are both messages in themselves. Neocities is also a medium, and its message is different from that of the previously mentioned.

Neocities demands that one have some basic understanding of coding. FB and Insta don’t require that, which is why Neocities is more niche, but it is also more fun.

FB and Insta are curated by algorithms. The algorithms ensure that the most superficially pleasing but truly insane content is pressed forward. So in the long run these algorithms will be duking it out with A.I. monstrosities for the last Humans and their precious attention spans.

Neocities is smaller, but also more genuine. It requires more of its users, but it also delivers more. It isn’t commercialized. People tend to use Neocities more for personal expression than for selling something.

Computer coding can be poetic, as seen via Temple OS. There are many sites on Neocities which are interestingly designed. You have the freedom there to do something that’s actually creative.

I think it’s good to strike a balance between analog and digital. Digital tech is a good means for sharing analog information. Neocities seems to lend itself more to sharing pure experiences, because it is less interested in imposing its rules of design on its users. It seems to me that the less mediation there is between experience and expression, the better the quality of the expression.

Neocities is not about selling entertainment. It is more of an area where you can build a virtual environment. Some environments are orderly, while others are less so. The styles and content of Neocities sites seem to be much more reflective of the personalities of their creators.

It is true that many Neocities sites are similar. This is probably because there is a lot of pressure today to have conformity in creative expressions. There are quite a few Neocities web pages that are so interesting that you could get lost in them. For myself I prefer to present things clearly. Sometimes a balance has to be struck between clearness and what I am trying to express. I prefer there to be a balance between prose and poetry, and between words and images. I see each of these things as complementary.

At its basis Neocities seems to be about personal expression. This would make it a good means to present artistic works. It seems to serve me as a little log cabin on a mountain, which also serves as an art gallery.

Neocities allows for greater freedom of expression. Browsing it has provided me with many points of interest. Sometimes viewing the newly updated pages feels like blasting through small towns down a road without end. Working on my site is like tending a garden. There is here as well a necessity for balance.


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