Guardians of the Garage

New Work-First Dibs

Today is the DAY!

I’ve been threatening you with new paintings for weeks now. I can’t express to you the excitement I have for this work. I locked into making the paintings and I am thrilled with the result. In the words of the Rock Band Foreigner: “It feels like the first time”. I hope you like them too!

Before I show them to you, a little housekeeping. Well, let me show you one….and then the housekeeping.

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Guardian #1, 42x56, 4800.00, 2025 (sold)

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I’m creating an archive here on substack. Million Dollar Garage. Bento Wiz. More stuff coming.

This is a rest-of-my-life project, this is where you will find me. It is my goal to own, control and commit all my work to one place. I’m so tired of Facebook and Instagram and learning new platforms that throttle my access and hamper my growth because I lack ‘niche’ or current currency.

I think this is an important thought: When you engage my work-writing, paintings or otherwise, you are engaging all of it. The story is the value. The work is the product. My person is the intangible that ties it together. None of these entities exist without the others. The wild card is you. I cannot live without you. That means I have to be findable in a way that allows you to ingest what I am cooking without having to take in your neighbors’ politics. I chose Substack as my archive platform because interjects no interference into our interactions. The only thing between us is the story and some art.

Be not conformed…

Go to heaven. Do simple commerce. Show people they are not trapped. This is, and ever will, be my operating statement. I think we can change the world on these statements. Will you help me get the word out?

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Paid Subscriber Gallery

Following this logic, I am creating an exclusive Gallery for you to peruse and/or purchase my work. The newest and best work will be live behind a paywall. As a paid subscriber you will receive a 20% discount on all artwork and access to all the available pieces. This discount, according to my new pricing structure (now less expensive), could net you $40 off a 16x20 Gift Painting to $600+ off a larger format abstract for your $50 annual subscription.

The Gallery will go live tomorrow or Friday (October 3rd).

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About the Guardian Series

Angels are pure spirits, they have no body. Therefore, how does the angel move? The angel moves by its will. It decides to be somewhere, and it is there, instantly. And how is it that the angel is ‘there’? It connects in a mysterious fashion, metaphysically, to the space and its inhabitants. It is not displacing space, but connected to it, somehow part of it. I’ll let my main man Tommy tell you about it:

“It is befitting an angel to be in a place; yet an angel and a body are said to be in a place in quite a different sense. … an angel is said to be in a corporeal place by application of the angelic power in any manner whatever to any place. … Accordingly there is no need for saying that an angel can be deemed commensurate with a place, or that he occupies a space in the continuous; for this is proper to a located body which is endowed with dimensive quantity. … In the same way an angel is said to be in a place which is corporeal, not as the thing contained, but as somehow containing it.”

St. Thomas Aquinas

Summa Theologiae, Prima Pars, Q. 52: The angels in relation to place

I have spoken to you about why I chose the colors in these new Guardian paintings in previous articles, but not the composition. Space. To be straightforward, I have no idea what I am talking about regarding the composition of these paintings. I am transparently stupid on how these works manifest.

I cannot produce evidence to anyone that the paintings I am presenting to you today are The Portraits of Guardian Angels. There is no clues to show you the guidance upon my hands by celestial Angels.

If you believe, you know what’s what. You tell me.

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