What are your rules?

So many ways to see and experience the world.

I made this cartoon four years ago, when I first started wanting to just draw all the time. When I saw it this morning, I realized that I’ve never been able to turn off wondering about all of the alternative possibilities any given moment or action holds. Is it like that for you, too?

Maybe I do think about all the possibilities too much. But I also think that possibility is all there is. Especially over the last four years, I’ve been thinking more intensely about what it would mean to reimagine the world completely. Partly, of course, because of our collective times: Covid 19, the climate crisis, political dysfunction, hurtling technological change, violence, war. But also more personally, as I entered middle age, and my child became a teenager, and I began to think about how to be an activist, and the relationship between activism and art.

I’m biting off some small piece of this as I work on my next visual essay. But I also realized that these questions keep coming up for me. Here’s a cartoon I made in January of this year:

I’d love to hear your thoughts on the question raised in the last panel!

More to come. Thank you as always for being here with me.

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