Way Better Painting

Jet packs have always fascinated me. Growing up, I always assumed that when I became an adult, jet packs would be available. Lots of people had this unconscious assumption, or something very like it. But of course life didn't turn out that way- technology did not fulfill its initial promise. Its something to question- how much of what we are sold as being progress, or "the future" is just a dangling carrot? How much of it is a picture of what we hope for, rather that what really is? As for me, I fall on the side of hope. I err in the direction of optimism. Theres no jet pack in my life, true! But the spirit of the thing is intact- what I got instead of the jet pack is, as it turns out, way better.