Art is expression of consciousness. Consciousness is the manifestation of mind which expresses through body with brain for a steering wheel. Darwin was pretty sharp, but he had it backwards. Matter does not produce consciousness, consciousness produces matter. I was born before I remember, but that does not mean I was not born. Sometime between then and when I did start to remember, I had what seemed to be a very normal childhood in a small mountain town of Northern California. At the height of that childhood, I was drafted during the...more