very relatable as we are all intimately familiar with
our fingers, teeth, eyes etc. With the Fleshlettes
all of the parts of the body are rearranged to make
something new. In this way I am using the human
body as a sculptural theme or motif.
I never met him but his paintings still hang in my
father’s house today. It was really the fantasy super
hero and science fiction movies of my youth that
captured my imagination. I started out by drawing
and painting my favorite heroes and monsters.
What moved you first to devote yourself to art
and when? Do you come from a family of artists?
Can you tell me what your hobbies were as a child and what were the things that caught your
attention?
In my immediate family there was only my paternal
grandfather who was a self-taught artist. He painted the Elk, horses, and bighorn sheep that he saw
growing up as a child on their western homestead.
I spent my childhood with a pencil in hand drawing
Superman, the starship Enterprise, X-men and any
other film and comic book character that I loved.
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