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“Bustin’ Out” By BrokeBot | Digital Mixed Media


Do you ever wonder if twins are just two souls who decided to team up and work together because they didn’t want to exist without the other? You just did.

I imagine one turns to the other and says “lets bust out of this joint!”   

“Looking Back” By BrokeBot | Digital Mixed Media

“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did,  but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
 - Maya Angelou

“It’s Infinitely Big and Infinitely Small… Get Over It” By BrokeBot | Digital Mixed Media

If she could only stop crying long enough 
she’d see the universe isn’t what it claims to be
you hear, touch, taste, smell, and you see
but when it comes all apart, you’d have to admit
there’s just so much more we choose to omit
It’s Infinitely Big and Infinitely Small…
lets just Get Over It

“What a Pair” By BrokeBot | Digital Mixed Media

What a Pair of pears
nothing else compares
to that love of theirs.
nothing scares that pair,
not even bears
with mean glares.
they’ll always help each other repair
affairs…that cause them tears
if we all could be a part of a pair like theirs, 
it would be the answer to our prayers, 
just knowing someone cares.
hear, hear! what a pair of pears!

“Nightmares of the Bottom” by BrokeBot | Digital Mixed Media

There’s the struggle in getting to the top and the struggle of
staying at the top once you get there…in both struggles, 
there are Nightmares Of The Bottom. 

Inspired by a Lil Wayne lyric: 
Sleeping at the top, nightmares of the bottom
Everybody wanna be fly until you swat ‘em

“It Just Slipped Out” by BrokeBot | Digital Mixed Media

I’m sorry for I know not what I say
Lets pretend I meant it another way
I didn’t mean to say it so soon
Can’t we just blame it on the moon
I wish I could explain what it’s all about
I’m sorry…it just slipped out. 

“Everyone Gambles Once” by BrokeBot | Digital Mixed Media

two roads diverge
again and again
until every path can be taken
but all of them end
he whipsers to me
how we could be friends
he’d help me believe
in some ego ideal
just think of a question
and the answer he’ll reveal…
can you tell me what’s real?
i asked just once
i can’t do that he says, 
but i can clean your conscience…
and when legends never die
Everyone Gambles Once

“Carrie’s Crow”  by BrokeBot | Digital Mixed Media

When they told her ‘always be careful of what you sow’
and told her ‘she would get hurt by one she claims to know’
Carrie would just laugh and say ‘I’ll be ok’
Cause Carrie’s Crow knows that love never runs away 

“Highs and Lows” by BrokeBot | Digital Mixed Media

When I’m high, I wish we never said goodbye 
When I’m low, time mocks me by moving slow
When will it stop, maybe God knows 
I just pray I find repose from these awful highs and lows

“The Arrival” by BrokeBot | Digital Mixed Media

A conservative estimate would say there are about 100 billion planets in the galaxy. 

The number 100 billion is almost too big to grasp. It’s equivalent to, say, the number of neurons in your brain, or equal to approximately the number of humans who have lived since the origin of the homo sapiens species.

Sometimes I wonder if there’s another world out there, just like ours, just with more love. I wonder what it would look like if we arrived there…would they be worried? If there were enough resources for everyone…would there still be war?

With “The Arrival”, we wanted to make something that was ‘pretty’ yet, if you asked the right types of questions, it could still be stimulating.   

“Your Favorite Flavor” by BrokeBot | Digital Mixed Media

I wish Your Favorite Flavor was me
ooh, it would fill me with so much glee
you could have as much as you want…for free 
 

“Your Love Keeps Me Warm” by BrokeBot | Digital Mixed Media

Your Love Keeps Me Warm wherever life goes
it protects me like armor from all my foes
without you, I just wouldn’t be
“they” would have gotten the best of me 

Time-lapse video of our first collaborative piece! “Journey” 

“A Koi One”  by BrokeBot | Digital Mixed Media

“Don’t be A Koi One” he said teasingly
She didn’t respond…she was too distracted
She could feel them brushing against her body
They tickled…she couldn’t help but smile
He thought he was the originator
but even her eyes wouldn’t confirm it.
“Don’t be coy” he whimpered.
She wasn’t trying to be
she just knew something he didn’t
She knew it had to be worth it

We originally made two drastically different pieces starting from the same watercolor sketch, but we didn’t want to post them back to back, so we held off on this one. The other piece we created was “Lovers Soldier On”.

We both prefer this one though:)

“There Is Only One Meaning” by BrokeBot | Digital Mixed Media

there is only one meaning
what could it be?
which way were you leaning? 
can you see it like me?
There Is Only One Meaning
it is what you see.  

“Mr. Duckie Never Judges” by BrokeBot | Digital Mixed Media

“The Doctor Is In” by BrokeBot | Digital Mixed Media

You suffering from a bump on the chin?
Need to wash away a little sin?
How about fight some demons within?
Don’t stress, we all need a little win now and again
it’ll just take a minute, The Doctor Is In.  

“It’s No Big Deal” by BrokeBot |Digital Mixed Media

She tries not to pay attention to it
She hopes it’ll just go away…
“It’s no big deal” she says
“tomorrow it’ll be ok.” 

“My Dreams Haunt Me…” by BrokeBot |Digital Mixed Media

My Dreams Haunt Me… Always pushing me to be more than I am, Forcing me to believe in what I cannot see.

“The Cure is in the Sickness” by BrokeBot | Digital Mixed Media


This is based on an original painting by Carol also tittled ‘the cure is in the sickness’, it was one of four in a series about vices. The original represented the vice of addiction. We had just finished our first collab (Journey) and not only wanted to create new original work together, but do some ‘remixes’ of older artwork. The cure is in the sickness was the first one we picked to ‘remix’. We wanted to use most of the original painting, but give it a different feeling all together. We wanted to continue exploring in a more colorful direction, so we did. 

The name “the cure is in the sickness” is no longer meant to represent one particular meaning, but the many different meanings that it could mean when dealing with drug addiction. The fact that maybe some addiction can be so painful that the cure is to embrace the sickness, in that the only cure is death…or that maybe, that people can have so much pain in their life, that the only cure is by doing drugs…or for Aldo, dealing with depression, and how being on medication, even though it ‘cures’ you by dulling the pain of life, it also tends to dull the beautiful and more colorful parts of life…and at one point in life, he thought the only way to cure the dulling of the more beautiful parts of life, was to give in to the sickness.