Entry#07: Art is Discipline, Art is Joy.

For Starters,
If you’re reading this right now, Thank You.
I appreciate you.

This is the Year Anniversary of my Launch from >This< Platform,
and so it’s only fitting to mark it with an update, an update about
Art; Life, The World, and Everything Like It.


The greatest pain that every Artist holds is the Pain of the Knowledge that the stroke of the pen from this; then and now into the stroke of the pen in the final moment is the greatest equation, and it’s the journey of filling that space; where we make all our intents clear, manifest our skill, or perhaps make our greatest mistakes.  Creation is so forgiving, and Liberating, and Citation so constricting all at once. Some learn to let this pain go, or absorb it into their Discipline, some Battle it their Whole Lives, as One who lifts an Anchor.   Regardless it’s a Dialogue no serious artist hasn’t engaged with over the course of their life.  

For Me
This year, in many ways has been a Reforging.
A melting down of metals, the smelting of New Iron from the Old
Recasting the Silver, Refining the Gold, and rebuilding the Stone
Upon which We found Ourselves, inside and out.

For many of us this year has been one of struggle, one of grief. One of recognizing our position in the Universe in a new and painful way. Perhaps through losses of close loved ones, unfortunate accidents, or even cruelty and malice; by which, these past few years we’ve seen much. Nevertheless, I think we All have been forced to take Reckoning. I have seen it, witnessed it, cast through eyes, screens, and towers afar, and with my own eyes upon the streets of our cities. 


 Looking back on this year, I think of all the support that has been offered me through this platform and am immensely greatfull for each and every one of you. You who have offered Words of Support, shared or experienced my work anew, or financially supported me directly through this platform, or through Geoff, or through a convention visit or something similar;
Thank You. 

As of this writing, I currently have 3 outstanding commissions, all of which were ordered in the early half of the year. I feel privileged to have your support, and if you are one of those patrons of mine, I just want to make note that I intend to have something beautiful completed for you by the Christmas Holiday, and thank you for your patience.

I have found it immensely difficult to create this year.
It seems that everywhere I turn, the world is full of pain, suffering, poverty; and Loss. And my heart breaks enough with each of these that the waters of my channel darken, and I fear what I may create. As I have waxed poetic upon before, casting creation into our world has always been something profound and personal for me, even if it’s something as simple as the scrawl of a pen against stone, or paper, the sharp cut of the chisel and the smell of the dust; Each act of creation is a moment of our Lives that we’ve Cut someway into the vibrating molecular fabric of our universe, and it’s quite impossible to understand their true reverberations. Our Lives our Songs, Songs We Sing unto ourselves, and Songs We Sing unto others, songs of Love, songs of Joy, songs of Anger, songs of Fear.  


For me there is so much joy in the careless, wistful graze of the calligrapher’s brush or the painter’s pencil agains the canvas in the first sketch or the last word, as if there is no concern to be had in anything else other than the making, the moment, Expression; the splash of color or sound, a Song of Life, Marks made by the Hands of Man. 

Those Marks, the ones made by hands of Man,
have always been the ones that have inspired Me Most;
and are why even in a telecast world of digital flavor,
I still Pen
         Ink
&
    Board

and Yet, when I raise my hand to craft, I so often find myself hollow, unable to connect with the Joy and Presence that make the moment and act so fulfilling and worthwhile. Herein; is the great challenge of every Master; Can You Discipline Yourself.
Act Anyway. 

Act in Accordance.
Draw Forth Regardless.

This is the great challenge, the climb the Master makes each day on his morning journey to the top of the mountain, trod the steps regardless, and often the defining aspect of the Disciple, and their success in The Craft and on The Path. 

This is what every Client truly pays for, at the end of all of it; The Spirit, Time, and Vision of the Creator.  For many, it is by removing this context that the job is completed, for in many ways it can form itself into a great obstruction if left unchecked. It is also the Will for Daily Mastery;    Discipline
which defines and makes and breaks most Artists on Thier Way. It is discouraging yes, but there is Joy the recognizing it, and it is with connection to Joy, the immediacy, that Act itself becomes something greater, and we can enter the Flow.

I have had so little in my Well, These Days for this Battle, this Discipline. So;
I’ve been Filling it Up. With Great Love, and Thanksgiving.

And still I work; diligently, with care and intent, and I look forward to you all seeing more of the projects I’ve completed, the Songs I’ve been Singing, and more as I share the projects I’m working on currently.
This year I’ve completed;

2 Shortform Narrative Stories, Comic Artwork.
1 Shortform Comic Book Pitch Sequence
1 Longform Comic Narrative Story, Comic Artwork.
Various Covers and Illustrations, as well as
~100 Pages of Comic Art Narrative Scripting.

I am also currently actively working on imagery for;

1 Creator Owned Collaborative Narrative
1 Creator Owned Original Narrative

1 Work for Hire Licensed Narrative
Various other Commissions and Inspirations.


The first of these I believe will be available to read in full soon, in the now successfully funded A1 Deadline: Magazine (thanks all of you supporters!) 
“Self-Aware in Aisle 5” with the clever and thoughtful Mark Schey.


The Rest of These I Hope for You to See, with other Good News, soon.


I don’t expect to see much in the way of my raising the interactions with the grand advertising engines of the Meta, or The Grok, but as always my presence will remain. I continue my updates in these spaces, when and how and as I see fit. In this era of increased digitized watchfulness, scraping and observing and learning; I continue to find myself less inclined to share any further without the sorts of beneficients and renumerations for the teaching that I would otherwise expect.
If it’s the Content Engine you want, it’s the Content Engine you get; but for me I’ve
never been Content,
          I am always Seeking,
        always looking Deeper,
and in that have born witness to how shallow these Matrices truly are. Do Not be Consumed in the Shallows, I say. Unless of course,
it’s to your great benefit.


Who is Benefitting and How is something I see that many of Us are taking a close look at this year, and I hope We all keep that in context as we each seek to make our ways safely and securely, fully through these steps of life, it’s hard to look ahead and see the coming future, but there is Appreciation and Joy to be found in Each Step, so I Hope that You do.

I look forward to sharing more with you all in the coming Days, Weeks, & Months,

For Now, I just want to say;
Thank you for choosing me, Thank you for reading me, Thank you for Loving Me.


I will leave this now with a little benediction of sorts, from my time preaching in a Town Square,             as I was oft wont to do.



“ I would wish you peace if
these were peaceful times;
but instead I wish you luck
  &
confidence
  in the trials ahead. “

Peace Will come again Soon; but until then We
will only have the Peace We Make
within ourselves, and within Each,
        Other.





` Much Love,
E

November 2025,
Portland, OR. USA