It seems to be that during times of great planetary change, if you’ve lived a while and done a lot, you find yourself looking back and taking stock to try to better understand the present. Artists,..we tend to keep a lot of diaries and notes too. Here are some visual and audio diary entries from between 2009 and 2010 right in the middle of painting my series The Assassination of Judy Garland, which was a processing of the 2008-09 Gaza War, the election of Barack Obama, the start of drone use in wars, and of course the so-called ‘war on terror’ years.