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To counter the increasing cynicism, aggression, deviousness and madness of our millennium, it is imperative today for art to be aggressively-beautiful, child-like, pure, flamboyant, direct, and unafraid of any form of ugliness or deceit. Without such beauty, life today is a desert sans water: the killing-badlands of mad-max skinheads. There is really no alternative any more; this madness and dishonesty has reached a point of Life Vs. Death. I have been driven by dreams of pure beauty ever since I first saw
New York City, November 2000.