Calling All Artists

Hey all. I just woke up. 3:15 am. God in heaven and earth it’s hard to sleep with this trake installed in me. I wonder, since I have a piece of technology in me, am I technically a cyborg. Indeed I have 2 pieces of tech inside me; a tube that allows food to be directly inserted for digestion (albeit a specific type of food)h I have a trake, and while it is a rather horrible experience, allows me to breath without the use of my mouth or neck.

I also have artwork on my body. Now this is completely unnecessary and narcissistic. It serves no purpose and indeed I got just because I like how it looks and I feel like it adds to me. But that is hardly the point I am attempting to convey. This brings me to my point.

My trake is coming off soon. I dare to hope it will be off this Thursday. It’ll come off and soon enough I’ll start radiation. And everything I thought was horrible up to this point will be pleasant compared to the radiation; from what I have heard about radiation. I may get chemotherapy which is even worse (but I probably won’t get it since my lymph nodes were clear). So since I will be going through a horrible ordeal I’m going to ask a favor from all the artists who read my blog (that’s right, I’m milking it).

I want a small piece of art; less than the size of a cell phone. It can be anything you like. I’d prefer it to be something represents me and my ordeal to you. What you think of. Also it’d if at all possible be tasteful (I hope you don’t think I’m completely loutish and uncouth). Now what I’d like to do is take all this art that is sent to me and try to put it together. Then get that put on my right arm as a tattoo as soon as the radiation and chemo treatments are over.

Now I’m not doing this as a celebration. It also won’t be obtained as a reminder of the situation. I honestly don’t think I’ll ever forget I have half a tongue. It will be purchased as a (hopefully) finite end of that journey. A year after the radiation is the greatest chance of relapse to cancer. The following two years there is a lesser chance of relapse. The following years as long as I don’t smoke at all, chew tobacco, chew a certain south American beetle (the name escapes me), or have a drink more than once in a blue moon I shouldn’t relapse. Of course I was told I shouldn’t have gotten it at all, but that’s neither here nor there.

As usual I digress. Please if it isn’t too much to ask do this little piece of homework. It doesn’t need to be grand. However I would prefer more than stick figures. Also no giant cocks. I hate censorship, especially of art and free speech, but I’m not going to put a dick on my arm (what was that about me not being boorish). It can be colored but that might not be the best idea (as colors change when applied to human skin.