I've Been Thinking About Blowing Up Lake Monona!

I've been riding more lately.

I think exploding my art with gunpowder is like biking around the lake.

I don't know where I am going.

I don't know what might happen next.

See, with my art I get sort of competent with it.  Then I need to move on.  I like the struggle of it. I like that I have to work hard.  I like new.  I like surprises.  Is there such a thing as competent surprises?

If I blew up a hundred more flowers would I be an expert.  Would I be genuine?  Maybe I need to do one hundred and one. Would that work?

Sometimes I have a really good idea. I think it is going to be simple.  I can light the fuse and BANG it is going to be good.  I second I think that it is a complete disaster.

So I scrape it down.  I focus.  I try again.  I keep fighting.

I always have this sense I should be doing something else.  I have an urgency.  

I need to keep moving.

Lately, I've been thinking about blowing up Lake Monona.  Not literally of course.  Maybe just a line of fuse across the lake.  It can perch on all the algae.

Maybe that's the new project I should work on.  Maybe I could draw a bit more attention to our poor water quality if it's on fire. Maybe it will burn like Cuyahoga.

Fishermen will be pissed at me.

Maybe we will get some fried fish out of it.

I better get back on my bike.

I don't know where I am going.

I don't know what might happen next.

Stick Vega is the American Gunpowder Artist, former CEO, and author of LESS KILLING. Stick currently lives and creates explosive pop art at The Blast Factory in Madison, Wisconsin. Not limited to one medium, he works in gunpowder drawings and paintings, photography, investing and writing. Please follow Stick on Facebook and/or Twitter.