HELP MAX FLY (Restoration+Reintegration+Creation)

Max Harris is organizing this fundraiser.

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I want to start by thanking everyone who has helped me along this journey...
I was fighting for my life and my freedom... you are all angels in an otherwise very dark night.

If you are reading this, you are probably familiar at least with portions of the hellish ordeal I have passed through. I have finally been ACQUITTED / FOUND NOT GUILTY after being scapegoated and unjustly incarcerated Pre-Trial for two and a quarter years, following a tragedy of incalculable suffering and loss.

I am not bitter for the time I spent unjustly incarcerated. It was an experience that proved to be profoundly inspiring... catalytic... awakening.
("Springhouse Punch Ocean Sunset" - SRJ Series - 2018 - Powdered Punch, Toothbrush, Reclaimed Paper)

I owe my sanity and physical + soul sustenance to both divine grace and the compassion of many individuals; as well as a conscious, disciplined effort to utilize as much of my time for positive growth, reading & research, Art & writing, legal education, and prayer & meditation.

In many ways, my experience in both non-disciplinary solitary confinement and maximum security inmate housing was akin to a seemingly indefinite monastic arts torture cloister in an ultra-authoritarian hell-bardo, where wildflowers and butterflies are considered contraband and (alleged) murderers, pimps, gang-bangers, and (mostly) violent men are my sole company.

That said:

I have had more time to dream and hone my vision than I have ever before thought possible. I refused to let my heart callous or completely succumb to despair... and here I am.

I want to share these dreams with you... as art... as music... as life.

My immediate intention is putting together gallery show(s) & representation / sales for my works on paper and small shadow-boxes, etc. that I created during my "MANDATORY ARTIST RESIDENCY" at SANTA RITA JAIL, as well as new and recently completed works of all sort... returning to my longtime studio-art practices - 2D/3D/XD - sculpture, jewelry, tattoo, painting, fashion, music, video, photo, performance, ALL OF IT! - emerging from my concrete cocoon as a crystalline creature. Producing new Portfolio body of work - body of sound - body of light!

I need workspace, materials, travel, and residency.
I need to fill a lot of gaps and piece together what could be saved of my last personal rebuilding.

This is a fundraiser for a number of visual/object/audio/etc. projects I have near completion and in progress, as well as a means for stabilizing my art/life situation in a way that is both self-sustaining and supports my ongoing journey of healing and awe. Your help now enables me to do so much more in the days, months, and years to come. I am trying to pick up the shattered pieces of this life and make a mosaic.

Help me make it brilliant, please!