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A fat bureaucrat asked me, "do you make a good living doing #art?"
"As good a one as did Van Gogh, Gauguin, Modigliani," replied I.

Illegitimi non carborundum.

[mafo @MAFOmojo]

The latest sensation
stretched across
a visual plain;
strange figures
dancing in sticky high,
frenetic contortions
before dropping
in a torrid tangled
mass of mysterious
messaging
that left a sense
of bafflement
before making
another move.
Colored stimuli
whispered boldly.
― mafo

[mafo @MAFOmojo]

“Nights through dreams tell the myths forgotten by the day.”
― C.G. Jung

“Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truth--penultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words.”
― Joseph Campbell

[mafo @MAFOmojo]

“Worldly distractions numb our ability to see things happening in the supernatural realm.”
― H. Meadow Hopewell

Does what we call progress erode, dissolve, the ancient myths which define us. Forgetting legends born of an existential imagination will leave all bereft, and adrift.

[mafo @MAFOmojo]

Jung proposed that everything in the universe is connected, every part is considered, not in isolation, but in relation to the whole, and all that takes place at a particular moment in time has the qualities of that moment.

All events taking place at the same time are connected.

[mafo @MAFOmojo]

“It always seemed to me that if you could get a laugh out of something, that was good, and if you could make life more colorful than it actually was, that was good. So, any artist of individual who worked in those two directions was doing something good.”
― Frank Zappa

Heck yeah

[mafo @MAFOmojo]

"An artist shouldn’t have any financial pressure. One can’t create something poetic if commercial success is all one is concerned about.”
― Abhaidev
“An artist without ideas is a mendicant; barren, he goes begging among the hours.”
― Irving Stone

Fame is my greatest fear.
― MAFO

[mafo @MAFOmojo]

Some wondered if AI was used.
Insulting? Yes.
Yet, my laughter ensued.
It takes a prompt for #AI to generate something.
What would be the prompt to create this masterpiece?
As is, this #artwork is already defying description.
Art springs from the essences of being a human being.

[mafo @MAFOmojo]

“While the authority of the doctor or plumber is never questioned, everyone deems himself a good judge and an adequate arbiter of what a work of art should be and how it should be done. It's therefore a risky and unfeeling act to send it out into the world.”
― Mark Rothko: artist

[mafo @MAFOmojo]

#mafo: "Visual #art is the record of the personal myth, an exposition of existential mystery, once hidden within, suddenly revealed to public and time. It remains a silent testament to the complexity of a state of evolving consciousness from creatures like no others, seeing all."

[mafo @MAFOmojo]

Mojo is an amulet containing magical items.
It might also be called Juju.
Some people may wear mojo to ward off or dispel evil, or to cure illness.
Smartphones have become mobile repositories of lives.
Here is #mojo or juju to protect and bless these important containers of that.

[mafo @MAFOmojo]

I've found phone wallpapers lacking so I resorted to making some.
I believe #art can have a protecive power and because smartphones have become mobile repositories of lives, I made some good mojo or juju to help liven up these important devices.
I may as well share them with you.

[mafo @MAFOmojo]

Mojo is an amulet containing magical items.
It might also be called Juju.
Some people may wear mojo to ward off or dispel evil, or to cure illness.
Smartphones have become mobile repositories of lives. Here is #mojo or juju to protect and bless these important containers of that.

[mafo @MAFOmojo]

Mojo is an amulet containing magical items.
Some people may wear mojo to ward off or dispell evil, or to cure illness.
They may also be called Juju.
Smartphones have become mobile repositories of lives. Here is mojo or juju to protect and bless these important containers of that.

[mafo @MAFOmojo]

.Even though #Twitter has become a "hostile work environment" and now one has to log in to see tweets, like a SA Apartheid country club, I am going to dole out a few gifts to art lovers based on my own need for some good wallpapers for my #Android phone.
MAFO mojo for your phone.

[mafo @MAFOmojo]

.Even though #Twitter has become a "#hostile work environment" and now one has to log in to see tweets, like a SA Apartheid country club, I am going to dole out a few gifts to art lovers based on my own need for some good wallpapers for my Android phone.
MAFO mojo for your phone.

[mafo @MAFOmojo]

.Even though #Twitter has become a "hostile work environment" and now one has to log in to see tweets, like a SA Apartheid country club, I am going to dole out a few gifts to art lovers based on my own need for some good wallpapers for my Android phone.
#MAFO mojo for your phone.

[mafo @MAFOmojo]

.Even though #Twitter has become a "hostile work environment" and now one has to log in to see tweets, like a SA Apartheid country club, I am going to dole out a few gifts to art lovers based on my own need for some good wallpapers for my Android phone.
#MAFO mojo for your phone.

[mafo @MAFOmojo]

“My soul is full of longing
for the secret of the sea,
and the heart of the great ocean
sends a thrilling pulse through me.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In the reefs are found a myriad of #mysterious, living colors - feeding and breeding in ways land dwellers barely understand.

[mafo @MAFOmojo]

“Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot see physically with his eyes...to perceive beyond the tangible, to extract the infinite out of the finite. It is the emancipation of the mind. It is an exploration into unknown areas.” ― Arshile Gorky: artist
Look deep.