Paintings on recycled pallet board

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Turns out there’s no shortage of paintings on recycled pallet boards.

In fact, there’s an abundance of American flags out there. Palmetto State flags too.

My particular niche was primitive fish and turtle designs. I was going for a South Pacific look.

“Let’s drink to our Maori friends!”

A store in town carried them.

There were pallets and pain cans piled up at Pineapple Hill.

But this stopped when we had the bad car wreck.

It was fun while it lasted.

And we’re still making toasts to indigenous South Pacific islanders.

paintings on recycled pallet boards primitive fish and turtle designs

Bad things happened, an entire run of them that shut me down, caused me to withdraw from everything except my inner self.

One afternoon, in a hammock, I took a photo of myself. Just my legs. But there was no one to send it to. No one to understand.

I needed a sidekick so I sketched an armadillo because they’re crusty on the outside but not within. I made him my butler. Crusoe’s manservant Friday.

We began interacting—my hammock photo speaking to that critter, that critter speaking back.There’s a folder of cartoons somewhere. For now there’s just this one. (LINK)

Eventually after that I began writing novels.

I’m still a hermit, marooned you might say, but leaving my shell more and more—my inner self seeking its freedom through writing.