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The Destroyer

by netGALAXY Studios | Nov 24, 2019 | CSA Advocacy, Motivational, Random Favorites, Uncategorized, World View | 1 Comment

TRIGGER ALERT - Mature content. Light This video (below) may be challenging for those recovering from Child Sexual Abuse. That is the intention. It is a poem, created from the perspective of the abuser. It was intended as a therapeutic exercise in empathy, by me, and...

Watching Democracy Fall

by netGALAXY Studios | Oct 10, 2019 | Motivational, Random Favorites, World View | 0 Comments

Republicans are enthusiastically voting to make our country unsafe, under insured, uneducated, underpaid, underfed, uninformed, unable to vote. Why? Because at the end of the day they believe themselves immune from such misfortunes. Bad things only happen to those who...

Empathy for a Survivor

by netGALAXY Studios | Sep 19, 2019 | CSA Advocacy, Motivational, Random Favorites, Uncategorized, World View | 0 Comments

For 1 in 16 US women, first sexual intercourse experience was rape, study says. As a survivor, I find this is extremely troubling, to be sure. But I also wish they had gathered statistics on male CSA. My first sexual experience was being raped by a trusted family...

The Math of the Holocaust

by netGALAXY Studios | Sep 17, 2019 | Motivational, Random Favorites, Uncategorized, World View | 0 Comments

I am a Christian, the father of two Jewish children and I am active in their synagogue. I’m also an artist, theatrician, writer and amateur mathematician. So let's do some math around the Holocaust. Have you ever wondered why there are hundreds of churches for every...

A Judge of Character

by netGALAXY Studios | Aug 26, 2019 | Fine Art, Motivational, Portraiture, Random Favorites, Uncategorized | 0 Comments

The portrait itself came about after a months long collaboration, where together we came up with elements and a pose that would express Judge Steib’s legacy and world view.

ForEVAN Young

by netGALAXY Studios | Aug 21, 2019 | Fine Art, Motivational, Portraiture, Uncategorized | 0 Comments

They say a portrait may be your best shot at immortality. At least, we know a portrait will likely outlive us. But the oil portrait is also an opportunity to recapture our youth, while we're alive to appreciate it. At least that's the case with Evan, who finally...

Evil is a Force

by netGALAXY Studios | Aug 1, 2019 | Motivational, Uncategorized, World View | 3 Comments

Why do otherwise normal people support evil ideas, like racism, without even realizing it is racism? Because evil is always girded in righteousness. The feeling of being right is so intoxicating. It triggers our ego and makes us feel invincible. It ruins marriages and...

Hired Gun

by netGALAXY Studios | Jul 30, 2019 | Art Instruction, Fine Art, Motivational, Portraiture, World View | 2 Comments

Many know me mostly for my commission portraits. Does that make me a hired gun? Before I dig into that, here's a gentle reminder that I am free to paint whatever strikes my fancy, including commission portraits! Nonetheless, I invite you to take a short journey of my...

And the winner is . . . Dylann Roof!

by netGALAXY Studios | Jul 18, 2019 | Motivational, Uncategorized, World View | 1 Comment

Roof 1-10-17 Roof Delivers His Closing Statement for Sentencing Congratulations Dylann! Here's what you've won: A fabulous front row seat in hell as your Manifesto now comes to fruition, along with the satisfaction of having projected your twisted vision into the...

Are We Dead?

by netGALAXY Studios | Jul 17, 2019 | CSA Advocacy, Motivational, Uncategorized, World View | 0 Comments

Ever notice it’s always the other people who are dead inside? They are always the sheep, blithely following. Never us. The thought occurred to me that maybe we are them. It's a theme I've been exploring, mostly because of the ever growing political divides, plaguing...

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