Slow Down Small Town - Hopper - Callagy - Kelly - Visualmyth
Slow Down Small Town written by Tom Callagy. Vocals by Bria Kelly,
original version. Tom Callagy, guitar. Five paintings by Edward
Hopper, animated by Patrick Burke. Powered by ONADIME. Public domain
film clips.
Visualmyth by Patrick Burke.
“It’s a Christian supremacist agenda, the idea that God intended and
mandates Christians to lead and control the United States for the
religious vision that they hold and the policy implications that flow
from it." Frederick Clarkson, Political Research Associates.
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
