Marty McCorkle🎨さんのイラストまとめ

"I would burn my right hand in a slow fire
To change the future … I should do foolishly. The beauty of modern
Man is not in the persons but in the
Disastrous rhythm, the heavy and mobile masses, the dance of the
Dream-led masses down the dark mountain."

-Robinson Jeffers, 1935

"Some years ago on the gold coins we used to trust in God...to be put on the gold and silver coins which circulated among the rich. They didn't put it on the nickels and coppers because they didn't think the poor folks had any trust in God."
-Samuel Clemens
Netter, 41 x 50 inches

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions... the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
― Mark Twain

Twilighters, acrylic painting on wood panel, 12 x 9 inches

The Salados, acrylic painting on paper, 8 x 10 inches.

“I, too, felt ready to start life all over again. It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, freed me of hope, & gazing up at the dark sky spangled with its stars, for the first time, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe."
-Albert Camus

"Every day is all there is."
― Joan Didion

When people first get it on climate crisis, they grab their own baggage and toss it the person spilling the beans on the likelihood of pending doom. I tossed my baggage for sure, right down to my wheeled carry-on.
Pro Tip: Be honest, but have a well-timed duck up your sleeve.

No poet me, not a word:
A second, red-lipped mouth recites to me,
for my Earth cut me from Herself,
& from this mortal wound I collect blood to spell out desperate images
of blossoms & muddy thigh bones.
Each is a love letter in which I ask for reconciliation with my Lady Earth.

Humanity? We apes puff ourselves up with such a grand word.
Where's Tree-nity? Where's Rock-inity? Horse-inity? These concepts are as valid as 'humanity', but ignored.
Every sentient being understands itself to be 'human' in the sense of being centrally important:
They are! 🐞😀

American society is an antique from the 1970s: Consumers unthinkingly consuming the planet.
Stick to your unsuitable consumer ways if you must, but the world is moving on without you.