Fear, Anxiety, and Explosions!

When I wake up in the morning I am scared!

I face a blank slate. I am not sure what is going to happen.  

I don't know what to paint, so I turn on the news.  Then, I have anxiety about our leaders, our government debt, world peace,  health care and the crooks on Wall Street.  And then I fear for places like Syria, the Ukraine, Afghanistan. The news sucks.

Why should I have anxiety? I am lucky to be an artist. There are so many people worse off than me:

The homeless.

The poor.

The hungry.

Incarcerated African Americans.

The uneducated.

The unemployed.

The environment.  Let me say that again.  The environment.

And, there are too many guns killing people.  Way too many.

The list is long. So I go to work.  I light the fuse. I blow things up! 

My work transforms. I hope it is beautiful.  I try to give back.

Like my work, I've changed.  Maybe it's okay to be scared.  I hope fear will help us change things.

Light the fuse people.

Boom!

Stick Vega is the American Gunpowder Artist.  He creates explosive pop art and blogs from The Blast Factory in Madison, WI and Bucktown, Chicago, IL.  Follow Stick at Facebook and/or Twitter.