Instant Gratification

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The onslaught of the Digital Age, its electronic hordes and the obsession for instant gratification has made the time-consuming skill of creating art using pen and paper almost obsolete. We all remember what happened to the folk hero John Henry, the steel driving man who lost out to technology during another era. For me, the challenge is to continue to create art using traditional techniques that integrates the themes that I have been working with for over forty-five years; conflict, dreams and humor. The digital clarion call has not been answered and I haven’t traded in my ink cartridge pen for a digital one.

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