I do not customarily travel out of my own way with the deliberate intent to offend others, yet my work often remains, among other things, an attempt at rational criticism, inspired reconstruction, and healing: in short, an alternative to the cultural status quo and a contribution to future status quos. I am an innovator and a thinker, and it is this which I seek to engender in those who are kindly enough to consume my creative work. My only enemies are those who believe their own suffering to be so peculiar or their own methods to be so exclusive in dignity that they would suppress the voices of their fellows from the other side of the fence. My daily challenge is not to lapse into hatred but rather to persist in the pursuit of my personal Vision, one whose personal peculiarities might provide others with some sort of Universal appeal. Seeking to transcend my own loneliness, hoping to reach out to others by the most authentic channels, I vow never to subscribe to any sort of arbitrary, normalizing regime that says: “of this much you can speak, but not of the rest.”

Rinzai Gigen.

Subliminal Mind Games.

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