The Hardest Hardcore Issue that I'm tackling

Well Folks, welcome to my blogspot.

Throughout these past six years since I've been attending the Rebel's Drop-in Center which is at the same facility where The Memorial Outpatient Department of Behavioral Health houses their offices at 3400 North 29th Avenue in here in Hollywood, FL which is in the Fort Lauderdale vincinity here in South Florida, I've had the opportunity to develop my talent as an artist, (I'm a painter, collage maker, and writer) and yes I've sold 17 of my paintings which were of the Art Deco hotels of South Miami Beach, Florida, but now at the beginning of this new year of 2010, I've realized that I like tackling hard-core issues that the world deals with everyday such as genocide, the state of Israel, and The Hurricane Katrina disaster at New Orleans) by making collages on them.

But right now I'm tackling an issue which I have survived is abuse.

I've had a hankering to do an art project that dealt with this issue not only to help me heal, but to
also shed a lot of light on the subject of abuse and bring hope that those who have been victims of child abuse, spousal abuse, elderly abuse, or knows or knew anybody who has suffered in this "Secret Ordeal" of abuse of all kinds whether it would be physical abuse, sexual abuse, verbal abuse, emotional abuse, mental abuse, neglect, abandonment, and all other kinds of human abuses done to other human beings, could heal and lead productive lives.

I have Asperger's Syndrome which is an Autism Spectrum Disorder that was a result of being mentally wounded from the pain and trauma of abuse at the ages of three to five years.

That's why the name of this "statement picture" is called "A Secret Ordeal" because it's an issue that is now more widely known but in most cases goes unreported.

To me right now I see myself as Steven Spielberg directing "Schindler's List" or Roman Polanski directing "The Pianist" because these were issues they dealt with as kids and they had to tackle them sooner or later.

I hope this piece will help to bring this issue to an end