Sushi performance and visual art and Limbo fine art A new Tread - Stephan Gary - http://www.garyart.com/portfolio01.html, local artist Gary has been rolling his pease sign, named "pacific", shown at right, like a giant hoola-hoop around town and getting a great reactionfrom community members, who stop and sigh it and "talk pease" with San Fernando Valley artist hailing from Houston.

POEMS
Stephan Frank Gary

Evolution Know It You Love

We pulled our slimly carcasses out of the swamps and crawled onto dry land. We ate those who tried to eat us. We learned how to stand up on two feet. We organized and learned more. We invented stories, myths, art, law and religion, to teach, guide us, and give meanings to our lives. You are latest result of all that has come before. What you do now sets the course for what we shall become

The paths that our governments are following will result in atomic, biological or chemical wars. War may once have had a noble purpose in the perpetuation of the clan and your species. But, now the world has become too small, and war should be discarded as obsolete

War, injustice, and killing, reproduces more of the same, and the circle repeats itself. It�s a stupid cycle. War is no longer a way to solve problems. To save our species will require understanding and cooperation of differing cultures; not domination of one over another by force

It is time for us to wake up and for you to break the cycle. The reality in which we live is a controlled and manipulated series of events manipulated by our �leaders.� Pass the message on, we all are a part of reality, and as such, each one of us has power and ability to assert some control over that we call reality

War is nothing more than organized violence where the strongest wins. Now is the time to stop teaching war to our children. History has surely by now, taught us that brute force does not equate to justice

Armageddon is said by Christian mythology to be the final war of good verses evil. I choose to believe Armageddon is not a physical place. It is a warning bell placed into our consciousness, based on logical observation of mans long history of domination of others around him by force. The good/evil battleground exists within our heads. Upon realizing man has the potential for self destruction, it becomes our responsibility to see that a �final battle� never takes place. Its time to evolve our species. Now is the time of our evolution for us to realize we have the ability to alter the path to a �final� war at arm aged doom

You must take responsibility that you play a part in this war mentality. Your action, or lack thereof, will determine our future. No one is going to fix it but you. Jesus isn�t coming back to fix it for you. Mohammad has left the building. Love others as you love yourself. We are all a part of the same family. Learn to respect others beliefs, and feelings just as you would want them to do as to yours. Life could be a celebration while we are here. We should leave behind a better place than it was when we came, for our children and their children. It is through them that we live forever

We need to begin to dismantle the military industrial complex. That mindset carries with it the seeds of all our eventual destruction. When all of the war machines are defused, mankind can begin to blossom as humans

And then again, if you persist in a belief that your might equals right and war is a necessary tool to conquer others which don�t agree with you, then we all have a problem. If war is the choice you make, and not one of peace, then eventually we all get to go down in that all to predictable blaze of pointless glory

World peace can happen. It won�t be easy as one, two, three. It will require some work, verifiable dismantling, and a mechanism for dispensing justice that all adhere to. We put a man on the moon but can�t figure out how to find middle ground for cooperation between cultures having different beliefs and perspectives. Give me a break. It can be done. Try a little faith in yourself, take some action

The future is full of promise, but it will take cooperation, not domination, and for you to realize it, to act on it, and to teach it to others

2005
Stephen Frank Gary is a Los Angeles based artist since 1993. He has been exhibiting his art for over 35 years. His education includes a Bachelors of Fine Arts from the University of Texas in 1980, and he finished one year towards a masters degree at the University of Houston in 1982. Mr. Gary obtained a Jurist Doctorate degree in 1991 and currently is working as a workers compensation attorney in Los Angeles. He also is producing and showing fine art in the Los Angeles area. His artworks, mostly painting based, include many differing materials, and styles. His images are multi-experimental, ranging from landscape, to multi-media, to social commentary and includes performance art. The ideas set forth in the artwork, emanate as a reflection of the world that he sees around us.