Extrinsic text: Artist in Common
Perhaps I am hopelessly an amerikan... The son of immigrants, people caught between two worlds, one of never ending promise, work ethics and rewards. The other, a bureaucracy of petty bureaucrats, monarchies and sad little men whose intellectual power rests in their desk top ink pad temples.
Fact or Fiction …
Shenanigans aside, I live a relatively secluded and quiet contemplative lifestyle, with occasional forays into the madness of Being, alive in a time of uncertainty and mystery, and my own quiet joys…
Mater/Materials
One of the things I’d like to comment on and share is the topic of materials. I feel this is a primary element in the varying modes of expression and creativity which affects me.
Outsider Art
I like to consider myself an outsider artist. Belonging to that lineage which reemerged somewhere in the mid 20th century in Europe with the art brut movement.
The challenges of the Urban Artist
This is perhaps the intersection of ‘Outsider Art and the Urban Artist’.