Post date: Jan 14, 2012 7:22:26 PM
This is the last piece of my recent art that I will be sending out, perhaps for quite a while, unless things get better here in Vegas. It is titled "Feed The Kitty". It is 12" long x 5 1/2" wide x 6" high.
Would like to thank those of you who have participated with me by sending your comments or encouragement. My children (art) are all up for adoption and looking for foster parents, who could provide them with a good home. Any leads would be appreciated and of course a finder's fee would be paid for placing them with the the right family. Neither the IRS or Social Services will allow me to claim them as dependents or receive health, food or financial benefits for them. Seems like an unjust double standard to me. Some can go out there and create all these little monsters on Earth and they get rewarded with financial subsidies. However, an artist doesn't get the same treatment for the little ogres he creates. Government and society demand you be a "slave trader" and sell them to any stranger, to be used by their new "master" in anyway he may deem fit. Have been chided and told, "if you can't afford them, then perhaps you should consider artistic sterilization". Have tried on numerous occasions to get aid from the ACLU to help me obtain parental entitlements and save my children from slavery, but my pleas have only fallen on their deaf ears. Our political leaders are out there preaching the nation's need for creativity and new ideas, but few are willing to participate in any artistic adoption program. Have even heard a rumor that there is a tentative bill floating around Congress that would ban elder artists, such as myself, from obtaining Viagra or Cialis, via Medicare. Apparently they don't want want our creative juices flowing. Will live up to my parental obligations and do the best that I can to see that they have a happy and long lives. Am proud of them. They are all very disciplined. They don't talk back. They don't crawl or climb from booth to booth in restaurants. They don't scream and pout at the check out stands. They don't need expensive sneakers or tattoos. They don't need a car or a college fund to study for an unemployable career. They never need to be bailed out for some stupid decision or act. The don't reproduce off springs and expect you to assume the responsibility for them. They aren't like most children and I must admit that some of them are a little strange. What I admire the most about them, is that I have only had to tell them "one time" what I want and they never argued and will do it for the rest of their lives. Wouldn't it be great to have a child like them?
Again, thank those of you who have participated. Don't know where, don't know when, but hopefully we shall have more experiences again. From time to time, do check out my website below. We all know it is difficult for me to be quiet and not opine for too extended period of time.
JOHN MICHAEL
(To see photos of the above art piece "Feed The Kitty", go to https://sites.google.com/site/jmdodigartphotos )