He appeared in our lives – one day – and then was gone – one day. My son took this picture with his SQ907B EZ-Cam at the last possible moment before he moved out of this type of position. Many months later we downloaded the images from his camera and upon looking at this particular image my son says, “He is doing the force”. My son likes Star Wars.

He does have a force; a force of immense creativity. The creativity flows from him in large waves of amazing realization. The type of outlet he chooses to use is marketable. He has many excuses; the world has not found him yet because he has to have everything just perfect. Can’t the force give him that? Can’t he use this force to his advantage, apparently not? He is a creative being, the output has happened, we’ve seen it – we’ve experienced it. He rode his bike into the party with a costume on and created a scene that many of the children will never forget. He has created images on paper that are worth looking at again and again. He single-handedly held us up with his force for months on end. Even in the food he created for us to eat.

He appears as an artist and then – one day – he is gone. He appears as a musician and then – one day – he is gone. He appears as a performer – one day – he is gone. He appears over and over again – but he is always gone. But he will always be here as his force is strong – we can feel him around us, in the paintings we hang on our walls, in the sculpture we have sitting on our shelves, in the illustrations we have framed on our refrigerator, in the video images of his performances we look over again and again. He is here but he is gone.

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