These new times are affecting all of us. We stood still and watched as it stamped across the states in the United States and now we are seeing it take a hold around the world. We are drowning. When he watched someone with a laissez-faire attitude slowly suffocate and kill someone on live TV — hearing the cries and watching people film and yell, not putting down the camera — playing in his head. Could he be next? They have the same build and coloring of skin, same haircut.
Survivalist instinct picked up a reactive attitude off the shelf, dropped his proactive crown on the floor for the first time. They harmed his lookalike, he wanted to harm them. He wanted to use power to dominate others, make them comply, fight with rage. He sat and thought and analyzed and realized. Got his footing and started to brainstorm, practice, pray, ask for forgiveness, apologize, and decide the only way to teach is to learn.
He had to create something that made him feel love, acceptance, valued. The only way to do this was to study how he felt when he was giving to others — gifts. But as he studied the psychology of giving, he learned that there is a myriad of different feelings that should not be excluded just because he wanted only one.
Littleton is back with a better attitude and outlook. He achieved his heaven again. Follow his artwork on a journey starting with the first one and ending with a physical man. Walk the road and receive them all — love, joy, hatred, the grief. They are all gifts and perhaps you can go on your journey and apply it to your world. Then hopefully apply it to your neighbor.
He has done a series of paintings that focus on thinking about surrounding yourself with an impenetrable force that protects you. Made in ten sittings of guards. A series of paintings called DIY: Joy, the search for joy and the Avante-Garden. You're not black enough, too dark, you sound white, overweight, too gay, not butch enough, you're a big guy — people grabbing their purses, locking their dogs. But everyone has problems and every day is forced to deal with enormous struggles. To them they are insurmountable.