Sid's Opened Lid Do You Have SOL? Issue 1 June 2014 | Page 13

Taking all his life experiences, Greeley began to create beautiful complex paintings with little or no negative space. Using different facets of his life for inspiration and putting them in one piece makes his artform easily labeled as "collage art," a term that the artist and I both found as ugly and uniftitng for the complexity and imagintive imagery in his work. It is difficult to describe Michaels work if you want to marginalize it into a style because of this, and also because his work is always changing and evolving. Michael carries around a sketchbook that he uses to doodle in while he is at home or out and about doing the necessary things he needs to do stay alive in this world without living free, because if you live for free and are a male artists it usually means you're in jail feeding off the taxpayers money, which he uses to discover new forms of abstraction.

Despite the difficulty in describing Michaels work as a whole, if you take each individual pece you will be able to explore many different aspects of art that are consistent throughout his works. So Michael's work is easily attributed to him and soleley him, but the best way to describe it as a whole would be to call it just that, Michaels work. Every artist wants their work to be unique and what is more unique than having a style of art attributed to you?

Other than the visual similarities in all of his works, there is also a theme which is carried on throughout the work, or what could be better described as a message that Michael is trying to get across to us. What is this message? What is better than to hear it through the wrds of the artists himself?

"I've been doing a lot of independent research regarding the Illuminati/Theosophy/Satanism, Gnostic Christianity, the military industrial complex,

aliens, all that kind of thing, and I think a lot of symbolism regarding those topics shines through in my work. So yes, I think my work serves a purpose. There's a lot of messed up shit going on in the

world that people should be more informed about.

I don't want for them to exist but I think that they do. I know, for a

fact, that there's murky stuff going on beneath the surface, and that

people are murdered for getting close to that truth, because I've met

actual persons involved in matters concerning such. MK Ultra is a

documented truth, so is the fact that the US government knew Pearl

Harbor was going to get attacked and did nothing about it. And when I

have the latest pop-stars galavanting in front of me on the TV

flashing "Eye in Pyramid/OK" symbols, Presidents shooting devil horns

at people during their inauguration ceremonies and spending their

summers performing strange occult rituals at Bohemian Grove, it only

makes matters worse. I don't know if these people worship Lucifer, but

I definitely think that our world is run by a bunch of scheming crooks

who control the monetary system and start wars to make dough."