“Man is so arrogant that he thinks he can destroy the earth, but all man can do is destroy his ability to live on the earth.”
“I’m still surprised by it now [poetry]. It’s a way of expressing some emotions. To me it’s like therapy in a way, and where I’ll go with it probably depends on how much therapy I’m gonna need…comes from the things I have seen and felt, or experienced by having been a part of someone else who was going through it. I don’t have to search for the edges to experience this. I think somebody pushed me on the edge and left me there years ago. When I turned around there was edges all over. Edges are all about the industrial illusion that takes us further and further away from the reality of who we are.”
“Walking through America is like a drug trip. I see an alcohol-money created world. Those are the two drugs… Materialism turns into a form of heroin — it just gets injected differently.”
“My impression of it is — that, if I didn’t know it was a pictured interpretation of what happened in history. I’d call it a bad drug trip. Unfortunately it’s a historical reflection, isn’t it?” – On Dahl’s Cyclorama Room.
“I’m talking about what the industrial illusion has done to our waters — the poisons that make the waters no longer a renewable resource…. We may be the last generation of grandparents.” – On the power of illusion and the “insanity we now call normalcy.” ~
SOURCE: Rapid City Journal