if i were an animated character

...not that i am not an animated person and that i posses a powerful character...what i meant was if i were not flesh and blood. this is the closest i think i can be if i were a drawing.

when i was a kid i like drawing...you know the usual mountains with the sunrise and the field beneath the mountain range. it took me a while to get away from that style. then i tried a new scheme using bright colors to hide the fact that i really didn't know how to draw...that i just knew how to copy drawings. i really couldn't start from scratch.

eventually i learned another way of expressing myself. i learned how to cut out cardboard boxes into little cars, little box houses and scenarios that i used for my toys. i had lots of matchboxes and i always pretended that the paper streets were the hiway. i got to places with these scenarios. i built communities and cities from these boxes. but they got too crowded that i had to discard my card board cities.

again i tried to find another way of expressing my art without making bulky card board cities. i took a pen and paper and started writing. with my pen and paper i made up people and cities that did what i told them to do, on paper of course. i guess i was a megalomaniac when i was a kid. (please take note, i've gotten over my desire to rule the world, thank you!)

now that i am old enough to write about a lot of things, and about a lot of people and a lot of cities i would like to come back to my card board cities and my plastic people and my little metal cars and create a world that respects people and what they believe in...how i wish...