I really liked it because it was full of nice images of plants, birds, mammals,

even some really cool insects!

But this morning, I opened up my book and all of the nature was missing.

In its place was a large-scale mining operation. Like any reasonable person, I was very upset. Not just because I can no longer enjoy a book I really liked, but because of how the image made me feel.

I mean, what if this was actually happening?

What if Alberta’s great wilderness was being cut up, desecrated, and sold?

Wouldn’t that be a terrible thing?

But we would never let that happen, right? Right!?

I need to calm down; I’m gonna go for a drive.

In distant space and time, we see what we seek,

our senses guiding us through complex tapestries of thought,

exhausting every consonant and vowel.

On a moonlit night, when the time is right,

it would be wise to let out a how’ll.

There are few notions more psychologically disconcerting than that of bycatch;

let’s all do our part to do away with it.

Yours in recreation,

–Ionatan Ws

Who wants to eat a lovely cupcake off a regular old plate anyway?

By the way, this guy (or gal) is off to Philadelphia next week to be in a miniatures show called Small Favors. (note the lack of a “u” fellow Canadians?)

Pretty stoked, I am. Let’s hope this Timmy has a safe journey. Fingers crossed.

Long time, no post from me.
Hello buds. Thanks for keeping the art coming from you arttimers.
Here is a drawing. Right Eye is holding up an eyebrow, Lefty drops his and will feel sad for a short spell.
Nose is out of joint..

Enough said.

–I.W. https://about.me/ionatan

my bowl runneth over

spilling out marigolds and partially digested chunks of meat

on the linoleum floor

and sometimes the flesh starts to quiver

twitch

and skitter tenaciously out under the crack of the locked door

and sometimes it’s the marigolds

Believed to have started in 776 BC, the Olympic Games were a vital part of Ancient Greek society. Contestants from the nation’s city-states would get together and hold this athletic competition in honor of the Greek god Zeus. The athletes carried out their challenges and competitions in full nudity, celebrating of the aesthetic of the human body. In fact, the Latin word gymnasium comes to us from the Greek gymnos, meaning nudity. Athletics were seen as a way to honour the gods; performing in the nude was seen as a way to pay them tribute.

Today, nudity is rarely seen in the context of Olympic sports. If ever it is present, it is often in the form of an activity known as streaking, wherein a given person or group of people takes off their clothes and makes their way through a public space. Modern Olympic events offer a worldwide audience for these daring individuals, who risk incarceration, fines, and—in certain places—institutionalized stigmatization via hard-to-shake labels such as sex offender. Still, streakers continue to let their flag fly, making appearances at public events worldwide and running these consequential risks.

What makes this phenomenon possible?

Are they longing, like the Ancient Greeks, to make known their radiant bodies?

Are they looking to challenge assumptions about the disconnection between man and the wild?

While a unified streaker identity is certainly appealing to our understanding of what makes this phenomenon possible, the truth is far less organized. The streaking phenomenon is brought about by individuals with their own combinations of motives. They are simply people, possessing ideas about the role of their physical self in the cosmos… just like us, just like the Greeks.

And yet, to restrict the expression of these ideas is seen as a public duty.

GET THAT MAN SOME CLOTHES!

Lest he be seen au naturel.

———-

Ionatan Waisgluss

http://about.me/ionatan

This is what happens when you don’t brush the seeds out of your teeth.

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