New Commemorative Stamp Series!
"Dismantling of Democracy / Celebration of Cruelty" philatetic gems go on sale soon!
All images generated from detailed prompts I gave to Sora, ChatGPT’s image-generating AI. In some cases I took images Sora generated and moved them to Canva, where I did some additional work on them. Feel free to download and share any of the images if you want.
“How’s he doing it — he’s writing a blog post about contemporary political issues even though he is still struggling with OCD whose triggers are tied to these themes?” I’m doing exposure assignments, and this post was one of them. I’m making incremental progress, though sometimes it’s two steps back before there’s another step or two forward.
Writing on this topic, and using Sora to create these images, are exposures I’m doing that allow me to engage political issues while maintaining some control over how I’m interacting with them. (I still am not reading news articles, op-eds or watching news broadcasts. I’m getting updates on some news stories via my wife or “sideways” through communications that come up at work or in other contexts. I have been reading some of the emails I get from J Street and T’ruah lately, though doing so is a real emotional stretch for me).
Anyway, that’s the story about that. Blessings.
Thanks for the powerful visuals in the stamps. I admire that you are working on deliberate exposures for OCD. I'm working with Exposure Response Prevention Therapy to get some kind of a handle on my severe OCD which mostly relates to contamination. I also get stuck in harmful thought loops. I'm wondering if your OCD centers on our current horrifying politics?