RAlife

Life is a beautiful magical train wreck to those of us who fight with depression. One minute you can be staring out the window reveling ecstatically at the beautiful vista out that window with no knowledge that the bridge is out just around the curve. Life is not simple. It is not just a choice between love and fear, well not at least for those of us who have the brain chemistry of an exploding nova in our hearts and minds. we learn to channel it at an early age, many through humor and or the arts. Having a brain that hopscotches around reality freely is not common, it is a great gift and a painful burden. It is tiresome to hear others claim that their view is the correct view when all it is, is another view of the roughly 7 billion views on this planet. Yes love and fear are our choices, but if you truly believe in the simplicity of this universe based purely on its simplistic merits then you will never taste vermillion, hear green or see a soul. Life is deep and there is more than one ocean to swim, and beyond this point there be metaphors that use no words. RIP Robin Williams, you will be missed.

WOW... barnesandnoble.com, amazon.com, bookdepository.com, thereadingroom.com, paddyfield.com, booktopia.com, superbookshop.com, boonebridgebooks.com and others are now carrying my book of fine-art nudes & photo-paintings INTERLOPER!!!! (and of course polymarketpress.com)

In these tough times I'm proud to be one of those included in the inspirational project known as "Julio's Sol" and their release of "The Passionate Life" www.juliossol.com/books (its free to download)

Review of my work for the back of my book "Interloper"

"Some people see life more vividly than others do.

Some of those people, especially these days, use cameras to capture that vivid spectacle. Because, hell, if someone has a phone, they pretty much have a camera, too: Especially these days.

But what's exceedingly rare, always and forever, are people who can transfer the stunning whole of their visual experience into an expression that can be shared by others. What's never usual is someone who can capture the relentless kinetic miracle of existence in all its aspects ~ the urban and jagged, the natural and unfabricated, the darling and delightful and debauched and destroyed ~ and bring those images to eyes formerly innocent of the glory and glamor, the triumphs and trash, that shine everywhere in this complex life.

Ricardo Acevedo is one such artist, a photographer whose untouched portraits often outdo what others attempt in Photoshop and whose manipulated works can express a thinking kaleidoscope's dream of sanity. Illustration, abstraction, machination. Narrative sequences like noir gone neon. There seems nothing beyond the skill of this man and his lens, which is why his works are worth watching: To see life in all its incarnations as vividly as possible."

~ Wayne Alan Brenner / Lead arts writer for The Austin Chronicle - Austin, TX~