A short thought on how I've been doing art-wise

I feel as though I haven't been producing an extraordinary amount of pieces lately, the usual vices have been distracting me from being productive (television, internet, the dangerous "screenballing", or television and internet simultaneously, etc.) Whats even worse is that I feel as though I've been in some sort of vague purgatory of conceptualization, waiting for the ever-cliche "muses" to come along and toss me off my lazy-ass couch potato lifestyle. I feel like my makey-muscles are atrophied, or maybe just all of my muscles are atrophied since I haven't really done much exercise since San Francisco happened, but all I know is that I really have to start gaining momentum soon, lest I should fall behind in my work for the upcoming gallery show planned for February with L, M and D.

Agh, I really need to stop these late night trysts with my computer, its giving my eyes a serious case of the glazed-overs.

an extremely brief apology in advanced, and an even more brief commentary on mexican artwork

For some reason I feel like I should apologize in advance because as of yet I have been unable to keep any sort of online means of self expression afloat for more than a few months, however I have recently acquired a scanner with no power cord and I hope that its enough to keep myself motivated.

But in the meantime I guess I'll post some artists to keep the momentum up.

José Guadalupe Posada - At times I almost feel embarassed showing this man as one of my inspirations, because my artwork is painfuly similar to his (in my opinion.) This fact does not make me love his artwork any less; especially because I was informed of his art after I started doing all of the skeletons, which makes me feel much less threatened about it (Old habits die hard, I have a hard time shaking the whole concept "nothing is original", and I am paranoid of being labeled a copycat, so what). His work is really great, and the best manner I have found to describe it is Albrecht Durer's Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse on ketamine mixed with Mexican folk art. Honestly, I love just about everything that has to do with Latin American culture, and I've always been envious because such a great group of artists were from Latin America, Rivera and Kahlo come to mind, of course, but there are many others. Frieda Kahlo was one of my favorite artists in elementary school, before this whole art school education scene had even entered my life, but I completely forgot about her until recently. Moisés o Nucleo Solar is one of my favorite pieces of all time, definitely, but I can't find any decent picures of it on the internet anywhere.