Head and Neck Cancer Sculpture

Posted on January 17, 2016 by masqueHysteria

My recently completed piece for the Brandon C. Gromada Head and Neck Cancer Foundation to help raise a few bucks in an upcoming fundraising auction. The goal of the foundation is to generate funds for the development of innovative and more effective treatments which lead to cures for head and neck cancers, most of which are some type of squamous cell cancer (SCC).

If you wish to learn more about the subject or perhaps make a donation here is a link.
http://www.gromadacancerfndn.org/about/about_the_foundation-3/

This piece itself, as yet untitled, is constructed of cloth, plaster, wire, “Durabond 90”, and acrylics. The web pattern implies the metal mask a patient wears during radiation treatments for head & neck cancer.

Love All, Trust Few, Harm None, dEj

~ Life is short

Posted on September 26, 2015 by masqueHysteria

“She liked being reminded of butterflies. She remembered being six or seven and crying over the fates of the butterflies in her yard after learning that they lived for only a few days. Her mother had comforted her and told her not to be sad for the butterflies, that just because their lives were short did not mean they were tragic. Watching them flying in the warm sun among the daisies in their garden, her mother had said to her, see, they have a beautiful life. Alice liked remembering that.”
~Lisa Genova, Still Alice

Momento Mori

Posted on March 29, 2015 by masqueHysteria

Memento Mori at Venue 222

“Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry.

Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.”

~ William Saroyan, American writer (1908 – 1981)

Whole of Nature

Posted on March 28, 2015 by masqueHysteria

“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”

~ Albert Einstein

~ Envy

Posted on December 6, 2014 by masqueHysteria

“Envying another’s beauty will diminish your own.
But when you praise beauty in others your own beauty deepens.”
~ Daisaku Ikeda

~ Caretake this moment

Posted on August 13, 2014 by masqueHysteria

“Caretake this moment. Immerse yourself in its particulars. Respond to this person, this challenge, this deed. Quit evasions. Stop giving yourself needless trouble. It is time to really live; to fully inhabit the situation you happen to be in now.”

~ Epictetus

~ Art Car

Posted on July 6, 2014 by masqueHysteria

He who is not afraid of attention drives an Art Car!
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~ Do not despise your own place and hour.

Posted on July 3, 2014 by masqueHysteria

“Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world.”

~ John Burroughs, Studies in Nature and Literature

~Bukowksi on Whitman

Posted on June 26, 2014 by masqueHysteria

“when Whitman wrote, “I sing the body electric”
I know what he
meant
I know what he
wanted:

to be completely alive every moment
in spite of the inevitable.

we can’t cheat death but we can make it
work so hard
that when it does take
us

it will have known a victory just as
perfect as
ours”

~ Charles Bukowski

~Tempus Fugit

Posted on June 20, 2014 by masqueHysteria

“They are not long,
the days of wine and roses.
Out of a misty dream,
our path emerges for a while,
then closes,
within a dream.”
~ Ernest Dowson
The Poems and Prose of Ernest Dowson
Wishing you all the very best of weekends!

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