why

Life is suffering and non-suffering. We move from one to the other like a metronome. That is life, impermance. Nothing good or bad lasts forever. Kali is a visual representation of that constant motion, that non-linear view of our place in the universe. From birth to death to birth, from suffering to non-suffering to suffering, it is all circles. Kali represents our ability to break the bonds of ignorance that keep us in those circles.

We are not lambs to the slaughter and we are not the center of the universe. We are universal. That is why Kali's Thugs exists. We want to break through the boundaries of our preconceived notions about our place in the world. We do it through music and art, but most of all through our belief that

ignorance kills and knowledge saves.

Sometimes you have to question why you're going down the path you have chosen. The question has been asked, why Kali's Thugs?

It seems that we have spent our whole lives trying to communicate something that cannot be communicated. Something that lives so deep in each of us, but never finds the fizzers in our cast iron facades. Never finds any way to reach the surface to be viewed and shared by the world around us. Some of us pile layer upon layer of protection around us, saving us from the pain, which is a constant in our world; but in that protection, in those layers of religion, culture, genetics, family and fear, we find ourselves unable to transmit or receive information. We become conduits, garbage in garbage out, don't interrupt the content, don't intrude on the flow of information by expressing personal thought..

So why Kali's Thugs? Is it just something to do, a grand art project? No, for us it is another opportunity to communicate and connect.