right there with you. I went to art school in NYC in the 80s and have not been back there since 2009 - everything was still so amazing then. I then moved upstate to Woodstock and lived there for 15 years as a bohemian artist - and now things are so bizarre - where I live now - everything is politically correct. Art is done digitally and printed. Most art is so perfect it doesn't look like it was made by a human...No one confronts anyone about anything - while we head toward extinction everybody just shops - it's amazing and horrifying. I draw and paint with my hands in the real world. But most people are enamored by AI - and technology.