I know how you like the art, johnny boy.

So I thought you'd like to check out some of my work over at Talking Writing (I haven't yet turned them into prints/other forms of physical art, for those who want that, stay tuned). Basically they have a couple of my pics but mainly my ugly mug is plastered over their twitter banner and newest issue. A different kind of selfie, of course, but there you have it. Enjoy it for now, I suppose. 

I gave up being on Instagram, deleted my account, but have now started a new one where my art is being displayed. It's supposed to be a link to my prints, but it's been limited as I'm not sure I get that website. Same goes for Twitter and Facebook. No readers gained there. Reddit only works when I try to gain listeners to my audible books, but that's about it. 
To say I've become unmoored is to highlight an obvious cliche. Some of you might say, hasn't it always been thus for you? Well, yeah, but I was hoping to find a better system to tell a story and, unfortunately, I have not found it. 
From the art above (and some of those shorts I've sent out) you can see that I'm experimenting  with visuals and texts and collages and what have you. All trying to tell a story. With the visuals, you gain a more immediate access to the viewer's mind.
witness the use of memes in our culture, witness too, the same photo/drawing used over and over to completely different effect, with the text alone changing.
Such is the idea behind what I'm creating, but where to do this best?
I noted that I had tried Instagram as it seemed a perfect visual medium and yet there was no place for a visual conversation. Of course, I might simply be lacking in a certain kind of imagination (or morality, as the fake news example of fake stories with real photos sold as real stories showed me) as poets simply posted their poems directly as pictures and went from there to making it. 
Still, perhaps that's a way to tell a story that I'm missing. Do you know of anything like that? Can you think beyond how things are set up now? 
We'll see. I will try to add things here, but we'll see, of course. If you have any thoughts, add them below.

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