In one of Junot Diaz’ lectures that I have watched in my You
Tube education, he says that the world expects humans to function at the pace
of machines. He reminds us that we are in fact not machines and art serves as
such a reminder. I feel better thinking on this since I have been working on
the same topic for 10 months. It’s definitely not “machine” pace. I’m not even
sure its “human” pace. A friend of mine once imitated a sloth during our trip
to Costa Rica. I think I am sort of like this guy here crossing the road. This photo of a three toed sloth is from the actual
trip. He was crossing the road and my friend caught it on her iPhone.
He is not in front of his laptop so at this point I might be
ahead of the game. In my writing sloth-dom, I’m proud to support an up and
coming artist!