Pumpkins for Politics

         Although I am non-partisan and apolitical (I don't believe artists can be as effective in their objectivity when they are publicly partisan). I painted pumpkins for the Palin Rally in York. I got a call Wednesday evening (10/29/2008) to do a fifteen foot by nine foot canvas for the Republican campaign rally on Friday in York, PA, to which Sarah Palin was guest speaker. Rick Walker and I scrambled in true military fashion, arriving at Walker's Framing @ 6:30am Thursday morning and leaving the York Fairgrounds @ 7pm that same day, with the work completed most satisfactorily. Fox local news was there and interviewed me. I saw the interview later that night where I was on camera saying that I was happy to support the American political process. It definitely wasn't for any reasonable amount of money. But as the stock market shows, America doesn't run on money (I'll bet the other world markets that depend on America's market wish it did). [more...]