Mitchell Pluto

                                          Politics got you down, vote DADAIST            “If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.”                                                                   Emma Goldman

The Storm "In this reality that we are in, this technologic-religious-industrial civilization is mining. It’s a mining civilization, it’s about mining. It’s about energy…They mine the being part of being human by imprinting the perception of reality that they imprint into human consciousness at birth. And then they mine the being part of being human by how they program the human to perceive reality. And take that being part of human and turn it into a form of energy to run a system. We’re fuel…In my reality, that’s what’s going on.” John Trudell

Johnny Apple Seed Meditates on Modified Mitosis , Genomes and Popped Corn  The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words. Philip K. Dick 

Sun in the Twelfth House Anya Means Collection What I am trying to do when I use symbols is to awaken in your unconscious some reaction. I am very conscious of what I am using because symbols can be very dangerous. When we use normal language we can defend ourselves because our society is a linguistic society, a semantic society. But when you start to speak, not with words, but only with images, the people cannot defend themselves. Alejandro Jodorowsky  

Blameless  Socrates Pokes Saturn in the Eye Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is the Best..   - Frank Zappa 

Dada burla and the hot booty poem And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.                                                                             Anais Nin  

The empathetic eye of the cosmos gives Saint Francis cross-sensory metaphorical synesthesia Private Collector  Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature.  Henry Miller 

Our  Ocular Lady of Pottery and  Magnetic Flux   This Apotheosis doesn't exclude any body Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.  Kurt Vonnegut 

Golem Citizen Acrylic 2012 Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying. Aldous Huxley   

The Things Underneath the Sink Acrylic 2012              I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it.                                                                                                                                        - George Carlin

The Creature in the Mine Mixed Media 2012 Bill Ohrmann Collection   Ladies and gentleman, by way of introduction, this is a film about trickery, fraud, about lies. Tell it by the fireside or in a marketplace or in a movie, almost any story is almost certainly some kind of lie. But not this time. This is a promise. For the next hour, everything you hear from us is really true and based on solid fact. - Orson Welles, From F for Fake

Saartjie Baartman Travels Through the Veves: A Lesson for Aestheticians   Inspired by Saartjie Baartman, Haitian art and President Truman's critical view on Modern art- "If that's art, then I'm a Hottentot."

Effigy of the Paleomammalian Sector Oil 2012  “I never even thought about whether or not they understand what I'm doing . . . the emotional reaction is all that matters as long as there's some feeling of communication, it isn't necessary that it be understood.”                                                                          - John Coltrane

I HAD TOO MUCH JAZZ LAST NIGHT 2012 OIL EARCANDY MISSOULA. MONTANA Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around .                                                                - Miles Davis                                

Missoula Primitives is subterranean, outsider and an independent art from the Garden City. Missoula is the weird art capital of Montana, known for it's free thinkers, artists and strong individualists.  “ Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusion of near-infinite possibility to erase the narrow confines of most men’s reality. Weird heroes and mould-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of ‘the rat race’ is not yet final .” — Hunter S. Thompson