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Numeral 7. 7 7's, my sister's home feels like 7th heaven with her new daughter.

I am sure more puns can be made, but the image is done. More than halfway there.

The 6th installment.

I also have plans to attend the Maize Farm and Art Market monthly this summer barring any sudden issues that come up. Since there remains no sign of Heartspring doing any more events that involve vendors as opposed to just formal gatherings, this is an opportunity that should not be passed up.

The 5th installment. I already have an idea for the 6th one. Stay tuned.

Happy Mother's day, in which the significance of is usually underestimated since it does not get the same attention as Christmas and Easter. However, in an age where things that are downright obvious to us is otherwise giving the appearance of becoming lost knowledge in real time, everything that you think should not require a reminder actually do require it.

Also, I have another subject to mention as well. There was news last week that a second MOXI Junction is under construction in Kechi (yes, it is finally expanding after a decade). I do not know what the policy will be on who can be vendors there, but there might be a chance that it could allow my work to be displayed to a lot of people who have otherwise not seen it that much, though I will understand if the focus is ultimately on those who create art and other crafts in that area as opposed to having the same people. This has actually been a long-term goal for a long while now, but it appears the rule of thumb these days is that the vast majority of goals will take longer than anticipated, and you can consider it a blessing if things actually do end up working in the timeframe you wanted.

I am currently figuring out how to keep moving with the Chipboard series, and maybe some of them will wind up on coasters this Summer.

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The 4th installment of the chipboard series.

When also considering the fact that Art at the Amphitheater for May was canceled due to the resuming of construction work in Maize, I need to have something that will maintain an audience and just maybe lead to a surge in sales if a post goes viral.

More on the evolving image series that was initially presented last week. Number 3 is live.

And here is the second image in the series, showing an evolving landscape without it looking too different, but different enough to be interesting.

I am posting it now instead of next week so people who read this will get the idea sooner rather than later.

Introducing, Neon Chipboard No. 2

Good afternoon.

I have got to thinking, after all of the increase in complexity in some of my recent work, I thought it would be a good idea to somewhat simplify the process for a little while with a new series where, though it is still not simplistic and fast, would not take as long to produce and when it is all done, will produce a nice and consistent series that evolves from one image to the next.

Oh, and there is also a numerical theme to it that counts upward. While it is not intended to cater to children, I think everyone will be able to appreciate what is going on considering how I have nieces and nephews now and how people have built up their own collections of the coasters I began to make many years ago. I am hoping to do up to 12 of these once the series is done.

Let us start with the first one for today.

I give you, Neon Chipboard No 1.

Now the images that inspired the last two, packaged together in one upload. These come from very early on in my art creation, back when 3D technology was still very much a curiosity and where I was experimenting with the potential it could bring due to how it just clicked with me in a way that work using paints or colored pencils did not.

Now this was also back in the day where if you wanted the really good tools, you had to pay for them. I could not afford to spend over 3000 bucks on the higher-end pieces of software and even the budget options for 3D were not exactly cheap either, so I had to be creative in how to make things work for what I envisioned, even if it was something I dropped later on such as a paint filter. I was still learning how to get the basics right so the best tools at the time would not have really helped me much more.

They might look crude compared to today (especially the one with the escalators). However, my teenage brain at the time was satisfied enough considering my lack of experience. Splash some objects around, add lights here, add fog, TADA.....

To note, these are not exactly for the purpose of replacing this old work and it is not to scrub them from history, but they could be seen as a milestone of sorts to see just how far I can go now not just based on what I learned, but on what the technology provides too.

One more image.

A long time ago, I made a simple art piece known as Clockstoppers, this is a rather new take on that using far better technology and hardware than I had back then, as there is a lot more detail as well as the feeling of motion as the clock shatters. Instead of a random spike doing it though, it is a pointed hammer.

Now I do not know about you, but I can't help but get the feeling that very little in this world is what it seems anymore, everything has turned upside down and it even seems at times like time itself is broken. I yearn for the return of the days when life can again be seen as normal, but to actually have a normal requires the return of an equilibrium where the rate of change slows down enough to have confidence that things will remain familiar some years later, yet the change rate, going at lightning speed now, is simply not giving much of a possibility of that happening. Where is normal, have you seen him, as he has been missing for a while.

The pressure to adapt seems too much and I am sometimes inclined to think that the solution is to turn around and go back to the world of Yesterday and stay there, not caring at all if everyone else moves ahead without me as things continue to feel more obtuse and complicated due to things like security and fixing things that are not broken. Do you remember for instance where you could just push the on button on the TV and the show was there (as opposed to waiting for the thing to boot up, then hunting down apps. and a bunch of other steps before actually arriving at the show)? Yes, it may eventually be that I will look like I belong in some museum exhibit, but I will not be in a cycle of continually relearning what I thought I knew before.

At least for the work I do things have not gotten too ridiculous yet, as you will see with this one. Say hello to Clocked Stopped Blocked.