Le Miravigliose Forze - World Map 1689 - Ecocide 2019 - Visualmyth
"In a world of complex and continuing problems, in a world full of
frustrations and irritations, America's leadership must be guided by the
lights of learning and reason or else those who confuse rhetoric with
reality and the plausible with the possible will gain the popular
ascendancy with their seemingly swift and simple solutions to every
world problem." JFK. Remarks Prepared for Delivery at the Trade Mart in Dallas, TX, Nov. 22, 1963. - "Le Miravigliose Forze" versus Ecocide. Marrakech Express vs. the last gasp of Predatory Capitalism. World War Zero. .
I became an artist in 1979 after spending three years as a commercial fisherman in Alaska where I fished for King Crab, shrimp, halibut and salmon on the North Pacific and on the Bering Sea. It was an amazing experience; inspired by sleep deprivation and the urge to survive I began to draw and paint. Prior to fishing I considered myself a writer, soaking up experiences, writing prose, poetry and short stories. I also spent 3 years as a herdsman on dairy farms in Vermont and in Washington state, my thinking at the time was that if I learned to fish and farm I would be a true Irishman, and I would always be able to get a job.
So I experienced the "ancient/primal" occupations. I have exhibited my work in galleries in the US and Europe. In 1991 I had the good fortune of being the first American artist to have an exhibit in East Berlin after the fall of the Berlin Wall, in Kulturhaus Treptow. My current goal is to write as much as I paint, combine unseen elements - create a big circle for the wind to blow through, causing sound. "There's plenty where plenty comes from."
email:visualmyth@gmail.com
