Well I am certainly flattered that I hold the record as most fascinating person!

On the issue of shame, I don’t carry the same shame that I struggled through when I first came to terms with my sexuality. But shame is a sticky and staining substance, and there will always be parts of me that feel the mark it’s left on my life. Residual shame, perhaps, that doesn’t come from my sexuality, but rather my behavior during the time that I was ignorant of my sexuality. It’s not bad. It’s simply the way it is. We live life and grow, and either develop or don’t develop. The layers of new experience that we lay down never negate or completely cover the previous layers.

Your perception is not insufficient on how to understand my art. Good art is oftentimes not understandable at all, and therefore I’m flattered that you can’t make logical sense of it. I am not setting out to create riddles that have definitive answers, but rather to play around with visual elements that feel right (or wrong) that are not backed up by cognitive logic. Whether it makes sense or not, on some level you’re getting it.

Thanks for your comments!
Jason

I was reading this artistic statement and wondering whether anything meaningful would finally appear and then there was this final phrase “cleaved me out of the insentient bliss of my myopic faith.” Now that is the closest I have heard out of you to what I would call an artistic statement.

And come to think of it, those same words might apply to how I struggle to understand what you are doing. My perceptions seem insufficient to deal with your images but I still have faith that — with your help — I will ultimately understand.

I am ready to let you call your sexual orientation “unwelcome” but I wish that you would get beyond “shameful” for you are a person who wants to present the truth and a truth-teller need not feel shame. You may recall that I have previously made a comment (haiku) about the shame part.

Did I ever meet anyone who fascinated me more than you? I think not.

Robert