Stop me if you’ve heard this before, but my life changed the day I discovered Sasquatch use potato bugs for money. Oh, let me back up a bit. I took my first steps into the art life in the spirit of things we do to get laid. That is, it all started at a nine day silent meditation retreat with my girlfriend, when, half-way through, I had what I can only describe as a reincarnation flashback.
I was hours into meditation when suddenly I found myself walking next to a river at the bottom of a deep canyon with two other men dressed in animal skins and each carrying a spear like I was. Really real. Anyway, when I got home, and having no art training, I was compelled to paint interpretations of the Paleolithic cave art of Lascaux, France. They were good enough to get into galleries and people bought them, but then I got side-tracked for twenty years.
I had a filmmaking career that included producing MTV music videos for Northwest bands, and culminated with DGC Records hiring me to shoot the Nirvana Never Mind record release party. Then I started playing music myself.
A bandmate convinced me to commemorate a birthday with an Ayahuasca session where the goddess of the forests of the world took me on a cosmic joyride that as a side effect filled me with inter-dimensional image-beings aka digital paintings. I wrote a little book about that if you’re interested.
So I was compelled to do art again and then someone said hey those look like NFTs and I said what’s that. The rest is soon to be history with a few Sasquatch portraits thrown in.
