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Hello, my name Ky, I am a fine artist and Billy's assistant. I am writing this for him. Billy is handicapped with poor hearing (he knows and communicates best with ASL), and he has a cognitive dissonance that varies day to day; however, I believe his artwork is totally original and truly profound. Billy has no formal art training. So, over a period of the last ten years Billy has developed unique techniques involving joint compound, sheet rock, blue lighting, and mostly monochromatic neon paint. He considers his art as outsider art masterpieces. He began this journey in 2012 at Home Depot where he was Richard Dreyfussed as in Close Encounters of the Third Kind by a piece of four foot by eight foot piece of sheet rock. HE HAD TO HAVE IT. He took it home and a neighbor helped him set it on two saw horses. He then, in a fit, built his first work of art called "Future Numen" (Google Numen - best symbol is the burning bush). He loved it. Then he built a eight foot high by four foot wide by four foot deep structure in his garage in the Texas August heat. It was entitled "Moses, Moses Come Out Said In A Falsetto Voice". The wifey didn't like it. Then he realized he needed a bigger space to fully express his personal spiritual (theological) path. He built on his home a thirty foot by twenty foot by fourteen feet high studio in which he built, by himself, a seven thousand cubic foot installation entitled "Yu Must Squeeze". The work was predicated on Billy's rewriting of the Christian scriptures in a new idiosyncratic language and syntax. It took him three and a half years. He enjoyed every moment of it. He is now working with me and I hope you find his work acceptable and maybe even praiseworthy. The main theme of the work submitted is a narrative of redemption. Billy is 70 years old. Roy Rogers and Dale Evans were idolized by him in his early childhood, back in the day, when "men were men, especially cowboys, and women were women, especially cowgirls," and everybody were Christians. Billy went to seminary and was expelled for his "heretical" ideas. Billy is no longer a Christian because he learned from his existential experience and he knows too much. For some odd reason he was inspired to tell the tale of Roy and Dale (look up Roy Rogers and Dale Evans to understand more of what we're talking about) and low and behold, he found out that Roy was not a Godly man because he discovered on the internet that Roy was a womanizer of the first order and he actually bedded Norma Jean Baker who later morphed into Marilyn Monroe (this sin of Roy became public when after the infamous Linda Lovelace was doing her thing and he bragged about bedding little Norma, and Linda gossiped. He couldn't find any dirt on Dale so Billy just concocted a scenario where she fell from grace with two Indians. The rest of the narrative is how Roy and Dale are saved by the truth, the real truth - Billy's BillyLand. A concurrent theme is how the artist can construct a whole new reality that can be, as in this case, esoteric and hopefully mysterious and manifold as Billy admits he doesn't quite understand all of it. It is an arcane work that is loosely based on Jungian psychology, secular humanism, built around a puerile joke, and we believe is very beautiful and unique.