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There is not much presently in the Stark County, Canton-Massillon, Ohio area. Via neoprogressivearts.org there was a place for the local Artist who didn't believe in pretending that success is measured by painting or being bought by those with the most available cash to buy your work. I am working, talking, pushing actually, for the person that once headed this local group to begin afresh. There are other places locally, however they are well established and do not invite the younger or unrecognized. At neoprogressivearts both the established as well as the neophite were welcomed as well as heard and or shown. Thankfully I have been consistently invited to Read with local professors, the professionals, though I have always loved being a bookseller, independent, and now am a gm of a local movie rental store. It has seemed that I have never gone too long without meeting a new friend, common old souls to walk with in these things. This is the primary way that my own Art has never seemed to die. Again, I am grateful. I do love the interaction with people of the extremes and near paths. Both of these areas of business have allowed me over the years to have this. Somehow I have always been able to express myself freely both in general as well as in the business settings that I've found myself. This is a gift of some sort of which I am most grateful. Art, I believe, in all Art's variances is the voice of voiceless, the heart and soul of world. Without this we are less than machanistic non-beings. Of course the truth is that we, all beings and things, are never truly non-being. I deplore sycriticim, the elimination of the person's personal beauty. Yet there is no true beauty alone. It is said that one is not ever living for another, yet at the same time never able to live alone. This is the Art of living. I hope that we can again do some new things locally. We each can say, 'I am.'
Thank you for your indulgence as well as for your own beauty of person. Continue. timothy