This is a call to to arms! Grab whatever weapon you favor: pencil, brush, micron, stylus, just grab your tools and unite in the battle to beautify the art world.

I challenge everyone who reads this to make a beautiful piece of art that makes the viewer want to look at it not out of morbid fascination or utter distatste, but because it truly is a work of art that brightens a room, reminds us of an ancient myth, tells a story.

I'm asking artists to abandon their MySpace hairstyles, odd angles with weird eye shadow, and photoshopped buckets of blood to make something HAPPY for once. My wish is to beautify the art scene. Show the purity of the human soul, the innocence of a child, a gorgeous fucking sunset.

In no way am I saying that the shocking and macabre are bad things, and should be banished from decent society, no. I'm just saying that there's too much of it. So much that if something beautiful is actually created, it's lost in the blood and gore from its surrounding class mates.

If anyone chooses to join the fight, comment on this journal and add your name to the list. Tell others about it. Spread the word. I haven't got any rubber bracelets to hand out, but come on people. You can paint one on. Let's give beautiful art a fighting chance again.