Matt Foleyさんのイラストまとめ

With a black bowler hat, a white frilled-fronted shirt with French cuffs, a black cape with a blood-red silk lining, I used to sit at bus stops around 3am, hitching rides, just to see what people were doing, were going.
Those days are long gone.
Now, my body'd be found at dawn.

Leading a life that is an edification to fellow humans, to try to enhance the existential struggle with the magic of art, to explore the ever unfolding of perhaps our most precious gift - imagination - affords a sense of worth to the mundane processes of wake/eat/pee/poop/sleep.

The difference in my art and the work of people like Banksy, Warhol, Koons, Weiwei, and Hirst is that in fifty years, they will be dated, out of vogue, their pop - popped.
My #art will still be relevant, even more and more so.
Happy New Year. Happy New Decade.
— Matt Foley (MAFO)

No matter the deprivations an #artist must suffer throughout the course of life, may the robust fortitude to create never be diminished.
I resigned myself long ago to discouragement, misunderstanding and rejection.
Still, I persevere - for you, to bring you some food for thought.

Almighty One, #Creator of Heaven and Earth, all things seen and unseen, all that is known and unknown, please treat those the way they treat me, sooner than later, because mortal time is fleeting; and then, the same for all of Eternity.
Bless me, guide me, keep me safe from harm.

Art is a universal language
Māksla ir universāla valoda
A arte é un idioma universal
Is teanga uilíoch é an ealaín
L'arte è un linguaggio universale
Η τέχνη είναι μια παγκόσμια γλώσσα
L'arte hè una lingua universale
Seni adalah bahasa sejagat
A arte é uma linguagem universal
MAFO

I worked in the studio and listened to a scanner. Evil deeds and bad actors abound. Armed robberies, shots fired, assualts. Dozens and dozens of humans behaving badly. I have some comfort in knowing I'm an antithesis. #Art is a salvation of sorts opposing all the rampant flotsam.

Together in our differences, united, we become the big picture. It is wide-ranging variegation that makes the whole ever more interesting. Embrace the diversity of existence. Revel in the variety. Being "us" does not diminish the "each".
A lesson to be had from encountering #Art.

Artists are a curious lot, heads filled with mysterious images wanting to manifest in a visual sensibility.
Imagine that.
It is amazing to consider that mental impulse traveling from the cranial cavern, through the arm and out the fingers. What an incredible process it is.
— MAFO

Imagine if you couldn't use red, or yellow, to create a picture. Imagine if red could only be at the edge, away from all the other colors. What kind of limitation would that impose. This the way racism works. Silly rules to divide people by colors. Only idiots think that's right.