Autoportrait, Crow Quill Pen on Sketchbook Paper

Gave myself a year and decided to cut off all my hair. Went a week with half-all hair, half-all gone, to provide a little transition time for myself.

Took a photo series while cutting my hair - something I did almost 10 years previous - wanted to revisit the idea, perhaps with a decade of experience and self reflection. Below are just a few of the images - I haven't yet decided what I want to do with the images - the final product. It could potentially be a large project itself:

I made a small-run, two-color poster to give to friends and associates I knew that I bumped into, in my regular errands. Just made a few.

There's a lot of loaded content that I - hopefully, will someday wring out of this project: identity, mirrors, self-reflection, etc.

(Previous: Inventing a Beard Gang)

Three-Color, hand-pulled screen print on paper.

A BEARD GANG MANIFESTO

Except for THIS ONE PARAGRAPH (or at your discretion, without it!), A BEARD GANG MANIFESTO should be grown, sheered and shaped in any way judged redeemable by the personal wearer of the BEARD GANG creed. There should be as many BEARD GANG manifestos as there are beards to hang them from. One may choose to potentially base their personal MANIFESTO on another Brother's or Sister's MANIFESTO as a gesture of sharing, as we are all truly a part of Global Family. The only requirement to join a BEARD GANG is to grown your own BEARD GANG MANIFESTO. My BEARD GANG MANIFESTO is thus:

I, a member of a shared, public and inclusive BEARD GANG unify under the anti-flag of what growing a beard in our contemporary age represents:

• Freedom of expression through patience

• Cultivation of personality without self-editing

• Expression without fearing the critiques of others

• United non-conformity

• A signaling of maturity

• A fierce wish for freedom to flourish as one's unique body, mind and soul take care of it's own self.

My BEARD GANG MANIFESTO is not limited to any one gender or sexual orientation, but rather only uses the beard on a young man's face as a symbol of a wholly, as well as wooly icon. One my find similar outcroppings of wild locks between your legs and under your arms. The important part to remember is to grow as one may like, in any direction one my like, for as long as one may like, regardless of your personal gender, sexual orientation, etc.

PERSONAL HONORY BEARD GANG MEMBERS Allen Ginsberg, Isabelle Eberhardt, Aleister Crowley, Patty Smith, Grigori Perelman, Amelia Earhart and Christopher McCandless