Artist and Galveston…

Do you have an artistic outlet? Not just painting or writing poetry, but do you create cakes, or crochet? Maybe make balloon dresses, like my friend in Galveston.

Perhaps, when you ride a bike, you are riding the patterns in your mind… I have always driven or ridden a car by using the numbers in my mind (I count mile markers), or I must exit the road by the design created within my head (autism brewing up), or actually throwing paint on a canvas, paper, wood or cardboard… whatever is in my space.

So my question is… why do we create? What makes people have a desire for doodling while on the phone? What is it within you and me that creates? All of us do something without thinking. What are our outlets for creativity?

My Galveston recreation center painting. Galveston had indigenous Indians that lived here before the white man. This is my creation of the two Galveston tribes: the Atakapa or the Karankawa tribes. The Atakapas were mostly in Louisiana, but some did live in Galveston area.

The cat should be a coyote. Galveston Island has hundreds living among the citizens. But, it’s a cat.