Lost Freedom

Freedom is never where you think it’s supposed to be.
Beware if anyone tells you they know where freedom is.
True freedom leaves one astonished, even humbled.
Your task is to discover freedom.
Freedom may leave you bruised and bloody.
If you hurt anyone else in your hunt for freedom, that is the wrong answer.
When you find freedom, you must not try to imprison it.
Deliver the freedom you find to someone who seems bound.
If they refuse the delivery,
Then continue to ask until you find someone who will cherish your gift.

“I'll be in a group show titled Good Trouble opening at the White Box in east Harlem 213 E. 121 Street, NYC 10035. Always a good place to see old friends and meet young radical artists. The opening is Nov. 3, election day.
I've taken 2000 photos this year starting with the new World Trade Center building based on the theme of the American Oil Empire. Then when the pandemic hit, I started taking portraits of people wearing masks. Then I slowly worked my way into BLM protests being very careful because of health issues. I'm a member of the Democratic Socialist of America so I'm also documenting DSA actions on housing justice etc.

I am editing the photos into slideshows that are exported as movies. At this point I have 3 segments. One is based on the WTO building in Manhattan and scenes of the WTO from Brooklyn mixed with portraits of people with masks. The second is BLM protests. The third is NYC as one of Trump's anarchist cities. This shows peaceful gatherings of multi-racial, multi-ethnic, multi-everything mixing that makes NYC great.

These gatherings brought me out of the pandemic depression. I was walking in McCarren Park and it was full of all kinds of people bbqing and just hanging out as Trump was trying to start another civil war. Please remember that Timothy McVeigh, Dylan Roof, the Proud Boys and all of Trump’s 'good people' in the kkk & neo-nazis are trying to ignite a race war.”