To understand what it is like to be haunted, first One must allow for the agent of fear to do some of the driving.
I was taken backwards in time. To an age where candy was a penny and I was holding a nickel. Where comic books were in reach, next to the candy and the drawings leapt off the page and grabbed my curious little attention. I was 5 and it was Chicago and the images today brought me so far back that I stumbled and needed a moment to recover. Haunted. Truly haunted I was. Pulled through time and space by artists that are walking the earth today and smoking the same chronic you and I savour and enjoy. "Provocative!"Beyond being haunted, I also was provoked. IN a good way! Being provocative can take us places being complacent, quiet and demure cannot. Seeing art so provocatively celebrated is liberating personally, as well as socially. By embracing more provocative styles we can elevate ourselves beyond the noise of what it means to be human. And in all it's divine essence, is remarkably seen. Most haunted...These here are the images that stayed with me for days. Not your art nouveau or even gauche. This is more humble style of the family with a loved one mia. Mia because a senseless drug war was perpetuated on herb loving grownups who were exercising their desire to use the sacred herbs we hold so dear. These are the loved ones stolen from us. They are the loved ones who can't freely medicate. Purchase meds. Or even sit to eat a meal with their families. Families who think of enough of them to keep asking for them to come home. I concur with these pieces of art. Until each and every last prisoner is released, we will keep our focus on the missing. Oh... And one more thingI want to thank everyone who collaborated and submitted a piece of their art. Thank you to the musicians, the mixed media artists, the digital gurus and the glue... Lee Estes who keeps this guild ticking along. I appreciate seeing the community I always heard existed. It's dope af to see it in action and be a part of the fabric that is the Cannabis Art Guild. In the "classist style" of define, to be "haunted"
Eat. Cake.
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