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I’m finally satisfied with my revamped Larry Gagner logo. You no doubt realize by the soft pastel, color scheme that I’m a big fan of the Art Deco…

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Larry Gagner: ex-NFL player/visual artist/author/public speaker, and Christian visuals creator and/or presenter.    larrygagner.com CenterStageGlass.com SignsSublime.com That’s pronounced (gag-ner), if you’re talking to anyone who knows about my…

Shake, Rattle, and Roe

Our Liberty Bell is a symbol of our democracy, but lately, the Republicans (Ron DeSantis especially) have been clanging some hard-fought rights out of our bell. And along…

Work Sets You Free

The title of this digital came, of course, from the main entrance sign to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, which interprets as “Work Sets You Free”. Florida’s governor, Ron DeSantis…

Drain Your Swamp, Trump

Liz Cheney said it better than anyone: Donald Trump should never be allowed to hold a US public office again (my paraphrase). He’s just not mentally competent, not…

Facilitators

It’s no wonder our governing bodies here in the US of A can’t get a handle on our surging gun killings. They (The GOP’s and the NRA’s) don’t…

Passover

The Jewish Passover represents the Lord’s death angle passing over the Jewish residences that had blood smeared over their door lintels, thereby saving the first born children in…

Backfire

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine hasn’t gone as Putin originally planned.. That’s particularly due to Zelensky’s resolve to fight as if he were King David himself. With the support…

Catch and Release

America’s two political parties can’t come close to agreeing on migration policies. The poor people seeking refuse in our country, legally and not, are swinging on a revolving…

Plus and Minuses

The major plus for the Republicans is their concern for the life of the unborn fetus. That concern seems to wane once the baby is born and becomes…

Cover Boy

Recently a couple of Florida parental residents filed complaints against a fifth grade art teacher that did a lesson on Michael Angelo’s David sculpture. Their grip was that…

My Sculpture Garden by Night

Hocus Focus

This year’s Art Basel show in Miami featured a real banana duct taped to an exhibition wall. It sold for an unbelievable 120,000 dollars. The artist called his…

Seen ME, Seen Thee

With all this talk about AI (artificial intelligence) going around these days, it isn’t any wonder that a person (OK, me as an artist) would imagine dialing-up an…

Don’t Do Gay Mickey

There’s a lot going on between Governor DeSantis and Disney. Disney is an all inclusive entertainment endeavor DeSantis is not. He’s a Republican with an LGBTQ+ negative agenda….

Volley of Life

Volley of Life reflects this back-and forth competition between two political parties over what (if any) constitutes the rights of the unborn. Roe Vs. Wade just got canned…

Renaissnce Man

My painting, Renaissance Man, I gifted to the Cade’s Museum in Gainesville, Florida, a couple of years ago. It’s now in their permanent collection. Dr. Cade is, of…

Shootin’ Putin

Shootin’ Putin’s format derived from the 007 James Bond movie series posters featuring a gun barrel surrounding an image of Bond in a point and shoot position. Here,…

Bucha Bags

The city of Bucha, Ukraine, is the ultimate site that represents the atrocities perpetrated against civilians of that city by Russian soldiers, exhibiting zero restraint. Women were arbitrarily…

Giant Defiant

Putin may be holding the US and its nuclear NATO partners hostage over the threat of a nuclear confrontation, If we, in fact, send troops and/or advance a…

Democracy Melee

The riotous uprising at the U.S. Capitol two weeks ago that left five people dead was caused and spurred on, for the most part, by the spoken poison…

Lethal Peace

The red, civil defense/peace symbol has been placed within the confines of a stylized James Bond gun barrel–and for good reason. It seems almost every other time I…

The GOP Giveth and They Taketh Away

problem arises after the newborn begins to experience life outside the womb. Just recently, a six year old brought a gun to school and shot his teacher. How…

Burn Notice

I’ve got a neighborhood friend who I would call a very quirky, installation artist. He enlightened me to “Burning Man,” which is an event taking place every few…

Open Carry: Curbside Pickup

My mother had a vindictive saying for men in general: “Too many men, not enough bullets.” Yeah, she’d been trice married and divorced. The last two in short…

Stayin’ Alive

Stayin’ Alive, obviously evolved from electronic crosswalk signals. Here, we see two Ukrainian church-going members(?) seeking to put an end to the Russian Ukrainian war. The male figure…

Tyrant Toungue

This seems to be the ultimate superhero Trump trading card in the series–sans my adding death angel wings and Hannibal Lecter’s mouth mask (not that the mask, in…

Impromptu Request

Last night (1/2/’23) while watching the first quarter of the Monday night football game between the Bills and Bengals, I witnessed something I hopped would never happen: an…

Cheek, Body, and Soul

Just because an eye for an eye is stated in the Old Testament, certainly doesn’t mean we should adhere to it in the New. In fact, Jesus says…

Seventh Heaven

Back in my NFL playing days (Steelers 1966-’69, KC Chiefs 1972), you would never have witnessed any ballplayers gesturing upwards with their arms and fingers suggesting a certain…

Buffaloed

America’s far-right extremist cults claim a direct connection with Donald Trump. They adhere to conspiracy theories to back up their outlandish pronouncements. They were the warring forces at…

No Choice, No Faith

While the January 6th Capitol insurrection was mainly the result of mostly Far-Right “religious” radicals, their ideologies are for the most part championed by the lesser extreme Christian…

Certifiable

Donald Trump’s handling of the US classified materials he illegally lifted from White House upon his leaving is an indication of his scatter-brained running of our country for…

Rino Resolve

The acronym RINO stands for Republicans In Name Only. It’s a very old political term taking on different meanings in different political eras. But when Donald Trump uses…

Busted

Trump’s done it again: committed another felony. This time illegally removing classified “top secret” documents (and the lesser) from his White House exit to his Mar-a-Logo residence in…

Teacher of the Year Award

If completely (?) trained cops with years of experience can make critical mistakes, like killing of a confined (in the driver’s seat) suspect with their gun thinking she…

Stilts Maketh Not a Man

In case you didn’t notice, those two stilts this youth is walking on are two JR-15 assault rifles. These are newest assault rifles being pushed by gun sellers…

Open Carry: Curbside Pickup

Texas lawmakers are hypocrites. They giveth and taketh away in the same breath. They’ve passed the most stringent abortion bans, even before SCOTUS ruled against Roe. I maintain…

The Elephant in the Room

These days, most Republican congress people try to avoid any specific questions about their direct affiliation with Donald Trump. They don’t want to promote him because they don’t…

Constitutional Kill

Well for sure these nineteen Uvalde students of Robb Elementary aren’t going to return to their respective homes–at least not alive that is. You can’t thank the local…

Hate Wash

The song from the musical South Pacific, “I’m Gonna Wash that Man Right Out out of My Hair,” reminds me of the situation that exist between America’s two…

Political Ricochet

Roe V. Wade just got canned by SCOTUS. And that happened just because the Supreme Court of the United was majorly unbalance in the conservative direction. For fifty…