You know I always say "I got my wings when I was acting-up and someone older and wiser, A-Head,
took me under their wing and
in between the cars, before I could get into to much trouble.
All my wings came to me when I was over asphalt and pavement.
Whether it was "On Lot" or "On The Road" or in Near-Fatal Accidents, while Sailing through the air and falling into the arms of my Angels. I Got Wings Kid. Even though I love the bare-earth and Mama Nature, almost all of my "wings" came to me over the solid asphalt.
Recently I have been forced to think about it more because of all the "Wings Hype". So I was thinking about it, and I realized the first time I got a pair of wings: It was from an older Head named Prankster.
Neither of us made a big deal about it and even made fun of all the hype.
The Thing is, that was when I was on my way to Amsterdam to study design. One day while I was there on the train, I had this super-strong urge to give away an angel pin. she was this person who I seemed to recognize in a dreamy memory kind of way. We didn't even speak the same word-language, nor did we exchange words. My mother had given me that pin.
Point is, It was on that trip that I realized I could be and artist and a creative while expressing myself in a whole new world of mediums, even pure design.
That's when I started to "get-over-my-self" and my fear of "success/failure". I started to accept that I could be a talented artist with a valid perspective. I began to embrace the idea of collage and multimedia as True Art for our time.
That trip was the Start of the pin thing for me, I think, and I got my wings on my way out of town for that trip.
Years later, That same guy who gave me the wings, introduced me to the "Hippie Obama Button Guy"
who let me work "Obama Hippie
Merch" on "
Obama Tour". Then we went to
inauguration and that was the biggest Shake-Down-Street Ever!
After that Almost every penny from "Obama Tour" Got put into our pins for Hampton.
While I was working Obama
merch I Met this other Shadowy Lot Figure, Lets call him
Shaddy, who later introduced me to the
Kesey family. They embraced me and our designs with vibes that felt like HOME.
Its because of
the pins ya know? Its weird.... There is some kind of
Mojo 'cause really I'm not that cool but the pin thing really is! I think it could be king tuts scarab
or the original combination of powerful symbols to create something new. There is power in Creation You Know That Much!
Mabey it Is the Blood, The Sweat, and the TEARS all mixing up in the cauldron.....
Double Bubble Toil and Trouble Fire Burn and Cauldron Bubble.....
Thanks for so much for the
encouragement you guys! Thank you everyone who has ordered pins we could not do this with out you! A Great big thanks to you-know-who-you-are for the BIG order that let us be able to afford getting to fest 8. (now lets see if we are going to need to voluteer to get in,Right)
BIG UP YA MOM!
alright enough of the corny
Yagga Out
