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What Does "Sustainability" Mean To You?
Being green is something my parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents were doing long before it was trendy and associated with fancy green lingo like staycationing. Cutting up old clothes for rags...
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What's One Thing You've Learned As An Adult You Wish You Knew As A Kid?
I learned that I should not have listened to most of my teachers in school. Sometimes teachers scare kids into losing their ambitions. We live in a society that tries...
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What Was Your First Creative Gig?
I was sitting in English class, trying to focus on the assignment and not on the rose and rifle tattoo of the girl in front of me, when I was...
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Which Artist's Work/Life Are You Most Jealous Of and Why?
I always enjoyed how Richard Brautigan drew his inspiration from the rivers and mountains of Idaho and California, and I think about how his time spent writing there must have...
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There is a strong western vibe in your art. Being a boy from Virginia, what drew you to this aesthetic? Did it inspire you to come to Colorado?
So the question is: why is your art so western if you grew up in the east? I create my art like all poets and writers and musicians create their...
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How Do You Stay Inspired?
Inspiration is tricky. If you rely on it, it becomes like an addiction. I have had moments where my chest becomes so heavy waiting on the inspiration to fill me...
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Do You Enjoy Your Work? Why? What Exactly Makes It All Worth it?
I work long hours and often wonder why the hell I am doing this, and then I realize that I truly enjoy the challenge. Every day when I come into...
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When Do Your Best Ideas Come To You?
My best ideas usually come when I am just waking up. I keep a sketchbook by the bed and when my alarm goes off, just before I open my eyes,...
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What's Your Process Like?
When I create, I create in groups, or flocks of art. I don’t want my paintings and constructions to become lonely, so I create about five or six works at...
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Are You Formally Trained or Self-Taught?
I’ve been asked this question by a handful of folks over the years, and I think it’s kind of a set-up for positioning or pigeonholing the artist (round peg) into...
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How Did Your Childhood Influence/Inspire You?
I was born in a hospital in Waynesboro, Virginia, and my folks lived in Hermitage, about four miles from there. My dad grew up in Crimora and my mother in...
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How Would You Define Your Relationship To Folk Art?
Growing up my mother was my greatest influence and teacher, matched only in her breadth of knowledge and her impassioned teaching techniques by my father, who, much to his own...
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How Does Nature Inspire You?
Growing up in a poorer rural area, there were always natural materials lying around that had such intriguing qualities to them—like a rotting tree stump that had the personality of...
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Why Wood?
When I started creating paintings and collages to sell, I was making them all flat, and that was fun, but then I discovered the beauty of working on wood -...
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Why Collage and How Do you Find your Materials? How Long Do They Take?
I decided on the medium of collage because I didn't have money to buy ‘proper’ supplies like fancy brushes or even canvas when I first started out. The paper I...
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Why Found Objects?
Growing up, I had free reign to search and collect with my brother and sister. There were outbuildings, weathered barns on their last leg, piles of rusted tractors and old...
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Tell Us A Little About Yourself.
I was born and raised in a little area called Hermitage, Virginia. I was the kid who was a “good drawer” in elementary school, who always was called upon to...
