Painting

 

Grade School and College

The oldest painting I have, it's from a sad and scary period in my life. The Commonwealth of Massachuseets put in a school for 'gifted stundents' The school's stated policy was one of 'noninterference' between 'fighting' students. I got beaten up frequently. Lots of us did. Steve Burstein, Kevin Bolen and I recorded for a radio show by Ben Walker. We discuss the school, and the eventual fate of the insane Director of the school during our time there.

 I studied at the Colorado College with Bogdan Swider, a talented realist Painter with a drinking problem. I have naked pictures of him somewhere, contact me if you need them.

Bogdan was always pooping on photography, so to speak, Because of his attitude, he failed to learn any of its lessons. Here I expressed my annoyance with him.

Yes, the colonic angle is inaccurate, but he was an alcoholic who shared vodka with students on a class drawing trip, so with him anything goes!

A self portrait.
 
 
 
 
 
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