| I remember the years of 1997, and 1998 well, as my father died in the spring of 1997. What can you do in a situation like that, but try to mourn and to let his memory go. I now believe the therapist who said "It takes 7-10 years to get over the death of a loved one". My dad was very close to me, and I never really understood everything he did for me, until fairly recently.
Most of the images may look sort of amatuerish, and unfinnished, but I assure you they're done. I usually go through artistic phases, and it takes 6-12 months before I wake up and feel suitably inspired to return to a medium. That being said, I can feel an immenent return to painting coming on, and would like to revisit several of these pieces, or at least the themes within them.
Throughout the course of my life, I have been known as an "artist", through-out pretty much, every venue I've tried. Even as a "bullshit artist". Early on in highschool, I had an unfortunate realization: "Art was too easy". So I began my college years hearing this truth everytime I sat through a fine art class. It slowly took the wind out of my sails, and I began changing my major almost every semester. My faculty advisors didn't seem to mind, it was a liberal arts school anyway.
When I started at Skidmore I was a biology major, but the style of knowledge I had to be fluent in just didn't sit with my form of creativity, and so I moved on, with the accumulated knowledge. I then sought a big difference, so joined the Anthropology/Humanities crowd for a couple of semesters. Dissapointed by the subjectivity of their 'truth', I decided to take my first business class. There I met one of my all time favorie professors, Ken Williams. His pragmatic but stylized visions of strategy and victory in business jelled with my own, and hey, what do you know, I became, and graduated a business major.
So, rather than blather on about who knows what, I'll stop talking about myself, and let you make your own conclusions about my worth as an artist. I hope you like the paintings. If I am, bitten by the bug again, I'll be sure to photograph every single image, and to post 'em here, so check back in a little while, and have a look.
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