What Does DON Mean?

DON means Different Outcome Necessary. That’s really the whole thing. Life hands you some shit, some of it yours, some of it passed down, some of it you probably helped make worse yourself and eventually you’ve gotta decide what you’re gonna do with it. I’m not interested in pretending everything happens for a reason. Sometimes bad shit is just bad shit. But I do believe you get some say in what happens next. Do you keep dragging it around? Hand it to the next fool? Repeat the same ending because that’s the one you know? Or do you finally say, nah, we gotta try something different here. That’s DON. And DonCarlos is me trying to live inside that idea while I make paintings, books, drawings, characters, whatever the hell else comes out of the studio. I’ve got dents. I’ve made dumb decisions. I’ve carried shit longer than I needed to. I’m not trying to act enlightened now. I’m just at a point in my life where I know some of the old outcomes already and I’m not interested in seeing all of them again. Different outcome necessary. That’s the work.

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