Begin

Spoiler: the world started with a big bang. Sorry to spoil the ending of the story for you...

It's funny that we would never know the truest of truths to our beginnings until our lives end...or maybe we would never know. Maybe we will take our last breath and everything that we experienced all our lives...every prayer we had said...every good deed we only did to be in the "good books"...would be towards no eternal repercussion. If, in fact, the world started with a big bang and we are all evolving creatures with no souls, the atheists wouldn't even have a single millisecond after dying to be cognizant of their ultimate moral victory over their God-fearing counterparts. Poor atheists! No time to gloat for being right all this time! I guess the only true possible victors to this rather pathetic debate would be those who believe in an afterlife of some sorts and, if they are indeed right, can be finally vindicated from those heathens who thought otherwise.

I started off painting what I thought would have been a "big bang"...I ended up with a hazy night's sky. I guess we will have to wait for the final episode to find out the moral to this story.

Offer

Well...how shall I start this one?

I found these two dolls and a toy lobster splayed out by the edge of a sidewalk in residential DC, in an apparent "donation" attempt. I found their state disturbing yet mesmerizing. Only the Lord knows if the neighbors who left them there chose to indecently expose their limp bodies like this, or some perverse passerby violated their innocence out of sheer amusement. The fact of the matter is that, through this stage of being offered to the streets for anyone else to claim, these dolls were indefinitely abandoned.

Abandoned, violated and used, with frozen smiles on their faces.