Mine is from the inside in response to my reality: a lifelong struggle between good and evil.
Both exist side by side hand in hand.
My images and writings from the past 50 plus years are my response to our collective struggle with good in response to evil, and evil in response to good.
The struggle is simultaneous and lives a life of its own within is all. It is a constant condition.
Most of us choose to ignore the pathos of our inherent condition and just go with our impulses, no matter who we may hurt or destroy or damage along the way.
I deal with the struggle. I make it visible in imagery and tangible via sound.
I really have nor have ever had any choice in the matter. It is the life I have been given. It is the reason that I am here.
It is not my intention to judge. Rather I just try to relate my response in terms of line, shape, color, form, and vibration.
How can you open yourself to the world around you?
On the day my father Michael J. Lombardo would have been 100 years old, I am compelled to share some information.
Due to circumstances and combination of bad luck and illness, I never had much meaningful interaction with my Dad. It was nobody’s fault. It was just the way things happened.
But I do have a few good memories.
He told me from his sick bed one day as I was off somewhere on my travels and daily doings, to “always be honest and always tell the truth.”
These words and that short moment with him resonate in my hears and at times replay in my memory.
I hate liars, dishonesty, and those who lie and cheat intentionally and with blatant forethought. There is no bending of the truth. There is only the perception of any given event in reality, or a twisted perverted falsified version manufactured by twisted minds for purely selfish motives.
It’s not easy to tell the truth and practice honesty as a way of life. While I do not claim to be a saint, I do, however, know when to keep my mouth shut, and when to tell the truth as it relates to any given event in which I may have participated.
Fessing up and accepting the reality of events can be painful, and really hard to accept. But in the short term and in the long run, accepting the truth about anything is more beneficial to your soul and totality of personal well-being than you can imagine.
I trust my perceptions as they relate to feelings, and as they relate to the response of my heart and emotions. I know when something is right and when it is not. It is an in born trait, or instinct, that I have been fortunate to possess for close to 70 years.
I have travelled many wrong roads along the way, because I did not listen to what I was feeling as these feeling related to reality; and I have paid the consequences for going in the wrong direction. It takes a while to refocus your compass, and get back to the right direction.
I do the best I can. I make images as they come to me. There is nothing wrong with what I do. There is nothing wrong with believing in yourself and what you are doing. I have tried my best to be an honest ambassador of my inspiration and the life that was given to me. I wish you the same.
