Colleen's Comments

12/8/2011
     Well, in this climate of nasty politics, this time when those who have and those who have not, are at war, one would think that organizations that should be compliimentary to others would be in harmony. That would be a normal thought, a thought that would naturally occur to anyone. But that is not the case.

        I had the pleasure of being part of a gallery in Seattle, WA. These two wonderful guys, one who is autistic, had a dream. A dream of a gallery where those who are disabled, such as myself, had a welcoming place to go. In America, "disabled" is often a ticket to being marginalized. Americans like to overlook the disabled, and there are those that actively dislike the disabled, for one reason or another.
   
       And there are those that work to cause harm. Those who use the law to batter the disabled into submission, under the guise of a charitable institutrion. There are those that believe they have the right to restrict our freedom of speech, and one thing to remember about Facebook, they ARE part of the 1%. Therefore, they do not honor freedom of speech; instead, they do their best to restrict that freedom.

        So, this gallery that I was in that served the disabled, well, these poor bastards made a newbie mistake. For most of us, that would mean we would tell the newbies that they made a mistake, and give them time to correct it, but no; instead, they ran smack into a woman , who in my opinion,  was totally into the money. And, in a blow to the art world, it seems that one person owns the words "art" and the word "heart".

        I find that very disturbing. So if this woman, the director of a Seattle nonprofit, owns these words, then does that mean that I am no longer an artist, I am an "ist".  And I do not possess a "heart". Nope. I possess a hydraulic biomechanism that moves blood around my body. I guess that means that if one were to Google "art" and "heart" and Seattle, this would become clear. She tried to get me kicked off of Facebook, but no such luck, dear woman, I am still there. And even if you do succeed in decimating my First Amendment rights, I still will not go away. I will not shut up in order to please this person. I kinda hope she does what many of us are worried about, trying snake our aesthically pleasing works. If that should happen, I will take action. So, all of you "ists" out there, glory in your new status, as an IST!!!

12/9/2011

OK, She Who Must Not Be Named and her faithful minion are at it again, here's the post that she cried to Facebook about:
Well, it appears that money has reared its ugly head, and as usual, screws up what ever it touches. 
Art with a Heart in Seattle, WA has forced the gallery to go bankrupt "because they might confuse her customers" as her legal paperwork made clear. 
Customers, S&&&&&? Really?!?

She did this yesterday, too. *rolling my eyes*
I'm guessing that she knows that her behavior was in bad form, as it is never nice to try to muzzle people. I do find it interesting that she is soooo afraid of me. VERY interesting. I'm think that a competing nonprofit would be the ticket. As the GOP keeps telling us, a little competition is good, right?
So I have decided to help these guys get their nonprofit designation. The ironic thing was had she not tried to shut me up, I wouldn't have thought of this, but now I have, and the genie is out of the proverbial bottle!
I think Seattle is going to have a new nonprofit very soon! the Ist Gallery of Fine Objects!