This is another pretty complicated composition in a very small space. You've got fine point marker, watercolor washes, beaded up watercolor, careful acrylic brushwork, pallet knife work, collage, and poured paint all in a painting the size of a sheet of printer paper.

The collage elements are serial number stickers from an automaton project I'm involved with. They are proofs and don't actually have any real information on them but the design of these stickers was actually part of my engineering job.

There is a weird patriotic aspect to the color pallet here, and I don't feel like it was intentional, but I feel compelled to acknowledge it. As I write this we (the United States) are engaged in withdrawing from Afganistan (it is currently August 21, 2021). Also the country is torn in what seems to be a strange divide where one side thinks Trump is great and vaccines are bad and maybe the pandemic is a hoax? The other side thinks Trump is like an inconceivable obscenity, that vaccines are salvation, and that the pandemic is the number one bulley on the meeting agenda.

So, fuck Trump. What an entire piece of shit. He is a little man and if he wants to debate me I will take him on and I will destroy him.

All that said, I do still have serious patriotic feelings. Look. Look at any country on this planet. I think you will find that if they don't have the major problems you associate with the US, they probably also don't have those problems. What I mean is, We seem racist because we are, and also because we live in societies where different races are in contact with each other. I don't think this is ideal, we should not be racist, but I think we are often compared to societies that consider themselves not racist and also they do not live in societies where different races are in contact with each other.

But anyway, it is hard to say if anything good has come out of Afghanistan. I hope that we (the US) got some good people out of it. Like, as in I hope that we have some interpreters and their families who are moving to this nation ban who will be proud to be here and who can hopefully become citizens. Like, America, Fuck Yeah. That's it. The ideal solution to the Taliban problem is to air-lift every Afghan out of there who wants to go.

And but anyway, this is a nice little painting. Really, it's been a few weeks since I finished it, and looking at it again, I'm like really excited about how much good stuff is happening in there.

Keep it together everyone. Let's all get through this together.