Common Questions On Materials

I recently was talking to one of my collectors. They started to ask about what materials do I use to create my art. In creating my art, a respect for the tools is highly valuable. Each tool may or may not be traditional however it all works to create the final result. I see the image in my mind and put it all together piece by piece.

I most of the time, create art with alumium wire, aluminum sheet metal. I have used several miles of galvanized steel wire. I have to purchase this all in bulk in order to create the work I do. Aluminium is an unforgiving material. Once you heat aluminum and or bend it a certain direction that is it. If you try to bend it back it will break off, I do not use heat overall simply because i want the sculpture to be as strong as possible. In heating metal, for the most part, makes the metal weaker, brittle, to make it easier to break.

Another factior in working with metal is the temperature is in the environment.. If the metal is cold, The metal will become much more stiff. Warmer metal is much easier to work with. Aluminum and steel wire are completely different. Aluminum is not as forgiving as steel I found my materials by chance and experimenting with all of the things I like.

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Planting The Seeds In Our Children

In one event, i saw a young girl accidently drop a glass container filled with candy. The shatter was pretty loud. The glass shattered all over the floor. The mother was being negative and talking down to her daughter.

I was thinking to myself, all of the small events add up to her mental health and programming later on in her life as an adult. It all depends on how the events are perceived. I was close by thinking what can I do to help this child not let this event scar her decades down the line. Yes, I know the whole situation seems minor however all of this can have snowball effect years down the line. So I said to the young girl. The good thing is no one got hurt and accidents happen.

I wanted her to be able to feel she can learn the right things. Even in the temporary failures in her future, she’ll have the opportunity to learn and grow instead of letting all of it hold her down.

I didn’t learn this untll my 30s, None of my family taught this. Since the focus was on failing instead of the lessons needs to be obtained from the events. Please encourage your children to fail so they will become stronger and more productive members of society in the pursuit of being successful.

Make Your Priority To Restore Yourself

As stressful times some under so much pressure each day in and day out, restoring yourself becomes even more essential. We all have felt drained on all levels at one time or more. Getting enough sleep, cutting the caffeine by a certain time, supplimenting with ashwagandha, tulsi tea/ I.e. holy basil, magnesium, vitamin D. This is just a start. Remember understand, you need to listen to your body and work with your health provider if you have health issues.

In feeling your best, it brings a whole new quality to your daily life since you have much more energy and vibrancy rather then feeling like you were ran over by a mack truck or beaten down with a baseball bat. Your energy and vitality is upmost important to every day life. I know many men do ignore it and including myself for many years. Why waste so many years, not feeling your best you can.

Remember, to always be willing and ready to self educate no matter what anyone else says. You are the one who is in charge of your well being.

Protect Yourself And The Your Loved Ones

In the aftermath of my mother almost passing on two times in the hospital. I wanted what was best for her and never rushing into making big decisions because I wanted her to come back as healthy as a possible. Now at this point, I have to stay away from her to not make her potentially sick from the global virus going around.

In order to do this, I have to take even better care and very carefully plan everything out to boost my immune system. It is more then myself, since everyone I am around including family, I have to keep myself to the highest standard from now on.

One of the most challenging things is most younger people don’t take care of theirself and take their health for granted. I know I did in my early 20s. I would eat the food in which was declining my over all health. Now being older, health is everything. If you don’t have your health then all else doesn’t mean much of anything. In taking care of yourself, it tells your identity of who you are from in the inside out. By treating yourself the best, you will be able to give your best outcome for yourself and all who are around you. Take a step each day, you are worth the effort in a lifetime of quality.

People Will Talk Against You

Understand, not everyone will support you. People will try to challenge you because of their personal ego is so huge it is blinding them. Know your worth no matter if they don’t see it or not. You have to have your own best interest at heart and to stay strong in your mission. Challenging times will come. The question is, How are you going to respond to those who are trying to press your buttons nearly every day?

With all of this, the environment is meant to push you. People will try to get a rise out of you to test who you are. Why not set the bar for them to push them in the right direction. Get to know yourself over time. Build your mind and control your thoughts instead of letting others decide for you.

In the event you see you are stuck, ask yourself, Am I doing all I can? Am I committed to changing my life for the current and future? If you stay where you are, you will be mentally trapped. I had to learn this the hard way. I am choosing to be a work in progress and define each and every day I am here to make a difference. I’d like to hear your stories on how you took control of your life. Comment and or message me. I’d like to get to know you better. I appreciate you and your dedication in reading what I have to offer.

Staying Well In All Seasons

This came to my attention too many people are focused on medication, and drugs to fix their immune system. You can easily strengthen your immune system in order to stay well. Get enough quality sleep 6 to 8 hours a night on a regular schedule, cut your sugar out of your diet. Sugar will lower your immune system for 48 to 72 after you eat it. Make bone broth soup with fresh garlic, fresh onion, fresh ginger, carrots, potatoes, fresh cilantro, parsley, oregano, turmeric, add a drop of oil of oregano a bowl. Make sure you pick a quality wild oil of oregano. It will work much better on much less. Having a hot fresh meal will help you to get better. Make sure to add clean filtered water bone broth.

Also after consuming this, you will want to take 85 billion or more cultures of probiotics at bed time. Do not consume at the same time of garlic, onion, and or oregano. Also Kombucha is a great to drink earlier in the day. Don’t drink it around bed time since has natural caffeine in the black and white tea. By mindful of how much sugar is in the drinks. Also eating indian curry will really help you to feel well very quickly. Fresh Lemon water, grapefruit in small quality will help you along with apple cider vinegar and cinnamin. Vitamin K2/D3 together is important to take every day. Vitamin D3 very powerful and getting twenty minutes a day will help you in strengthening your immune system.

In the event of you getting sick as soon as you feel it coming on immediately The faster you give your best defenses, the faster you will get well. If you wait then much more time it will take to get well and recover from the sickness. Also always stay active to boost your overall health Talk to your doctor to make sure these are options for you. I believe in less to no medication is better. Stay strong and heathy.

Update On My Mother

I have some great news about my mother. She has been moved to a new hospital. She had her tracheostomy tube removed. My mother has her voice back. I am glad the tube didn’t damage her voice. She can eat, drink, stand up, and walk very carefully. Thank you to all of you who have been praying for my mother. She means a lot to me.

I honestly do hope this event will give her a wake up call to start taking care of herself so she will never have to come back. In the first Icu twenty one day stay, she stopped breathing twice. I am glad she is still living now. I have been implanting positive messages in her mind to put her to take better care of herself. She deserves to be happy and healthy. After all, my mother has do so much for our family growing up. Thank you mother for all you have done and will do in the future.

Own Up To Your Life

I recently made a mistake in how I reacted to a person working with me. He was basing his work around what others were not doing. I said to him, I know you are a great worker. I know you can do great. I have seen you do awesome work. These days, most people only hear the negative and what others aren’t doing and or do little of. Making things right is the best thing to do in creating the environment you seek to be a part of.

Fear and control are not the ways to really have workers want to apply theirselves in the work arena. Encouragement, being upfront and honest with your employees makes a huge difference in production quality and volume. Decide to make the workplace were people feel understood and welcomed. Every day every person faces challenges and someones huge periods of time of when it can be severe. You don’t know what is going on in their life. By being welcoming and understanding when violent situations start you will be able to keep the peace and strengthen the relationships. Make it be known, you are a person who can be trusted and build rapport. You will be listened to because your people will feel apart of a community.

Help People With Addiction

Growing up my father was alcoholic. He has schizophrenia. Those two don’t mix since he would have an explosive temper. He went to AA and still drank alcohol. My parents would have so many violent fights and arguments. It tore the family apart from the addiction to the abuse. In having the environment as a child there was a major sense of separation and a weak connection to family by distance apart. Years later my father divorced my mother and quit drinking alcohol. To this day, my father regrets drinking alcohol and wishes he could take it back.

From there on my instagram account, a young girl came to me and said, your work inspires me to get the help I need to overcome my addiction. She said she has no sober friends. I offered to be her sober friends. I said, your life is invaluable more then any drug to save your life now. From there, she went to rehab to get the help she needed so much. As I connect the dots, I think what can I do to help more people with addictions since I have seen it tear down and destroy families such as mine.

I am offering more prints of my work to be a stepping stone to help people with addiction to say, “This is the symbol of the day, I take ownership over my life to overcome my addiction. By putting this as a benchmark, a new door opens up to dedicating your life to being sober and in the present today.

I’d like to hear your stories. Contact me if you need someone to talk to and or need support.

The Era Of Taking Pride In Work

In looking at a large number of people, the lack of taking pride in their work seems to be so strong. As an example when you go to a place to eat, you can tell immediately if they care about the food being served vs. don’t care if you come or go somewhere else. It is a night and day difference.

I choose to have a sense of pride in my work because I care about the experience now and the lasting experience years from now. I go the extra mile for clients. I can see a clear pathway of helping people where they are. Awesome serve goes so much further then average or medocre. The quality of workmanship is at important as the experience.

We as the older generation need to start inspiring the younger generation to be the best they can. Remember this is our future we create. Bringing a sense of self fulfillment is where this generation and future generations need to see, Show how goal setting with personal benchmarks on themselves comes first before having anyone else do it for them. I’d like to hear your feedback on this. What are some of the stories you’d like to share?