For the past twenty years, I’ve worked in social services, housing, and urban planning for low-income families. My early art and writing focused on spatial theory, the built environment, and architecture. I developed and curated Centrifuge at the Art Institute of Portland. Centrifuge was a study of the interconnectedness between the disciplines of art, art theory, and architecture.

Centrifuge featured master artist and GBD Architecture founder Chuck Gordon, two of Portland’s leading architecture firms, and several of Portland’s local artists. I served four years on the planning committee of Portland’s largest art auction, The Annual CAP Art Auction, overseeing the art installation and multimedia program.

Eight years ago, especially through the period of COVID and the years after I began studying Fanaticism and World Religions concurrently in governments around the world, especially the Middle East. As we all know now, these last eight years have ushered in a time of unprecedented fanaticism, skewing, and politicization of world religions for some to install sectarian and authoritarian regimes across the globe. In the last 45 days as I write this an enemy of the United States has installed his authoritarian regime within our own White House.

In short, what I will be doing is what I hope every level-headed American who enjoys real democracy will be doing, and that is journalism, information streams, education maximizing community standing, and networking to ensure that the extreme force of current propaganda is unwound and that my fellow Americans realize their stark numbers against the very sparse few of this regime. As Heather Cox Richardson says, “Power has not yet been taken, there is mighty power still sloshing around.” The time is now to solidify. Heather Cox Richardson in fact, a writer whose sandals I am not fit to tie is a sociopolitical master historian and I hope everyone is paying attention to her work. You can find it here

 Long Live Democracy