Announcing Urban Monkism Quarterly...

Yep, that's right. Heard it hear first... That is, if anybody is paying attention. In my effort to document my entire life as an artist I am developing something I have been putting off for a long time.

Coming this summer I am going to put out the first quarterly catalog, issue, publication, or whatever anyone wants to call it. It is going to be properly named " The Prototype". This first issue is going to be rough around the edges. Real rough, but as I figure out exactly where I am going with this each issue will improve upon the last.

Basically, it is a catalog of everything Urban Monk. My books, my thoughts, my poetry, my art, and completely my opinions on everything with a Post Modern Barbecue twist. It will strictly deal with all things creative. There will be absolutely no ads except for products produced by me.

Eventually, I hope to feature artists' work that I like and know. Also, maybe interviews and who knows what else. This is kind of a working idea, but I will put the first one out there in late may.

I don't know why I am doing this. It isn't like anybody is listening out there, but for some reason I feel that all of this work that I am producing is for a reason. I feel as though everything I do should be documented. There is something within my art and ideas that lay an important concept or fundamental essence. I am not sure what or why it is. I just know that there is something profound resting beneath the surface and I am slowly starting to scratch away the dirt like an archeologist uncovering ancient ruins.

The more I try and dissect what it is that drives my art, the better and more profound my art becomes. By seeing how elements and techniques can inter relate with other subjects that appear at first glance to have no correlation is really quite amazing. Who'd of thought that listening to physicist and molecular biologist give speeches would influence the way I think about the application of color and texture or that listening to a woman's view on the Theory of Darwin's Evolution would cause me to think about the evolution of my own art and perhaps it is not the way it is because of the way I thought it was.

These quarterly catalogs might just become my little pet project. I have no idea where they are headed, but then again I have no idea where I am headed. All I know is that I follow the flow of my creative energy. And right now my creative energy is telling me that I need to write this quarterly amongst other things.

The muse has spoken and I have listened...