THE ARTIST’S PERSPECTIVE
I want to thank everybody for being here. It’s such a great honor for all of you to be here at the premier opening of my first mu- seum exhibition. The museum people blew me away. Each one of them taught me how to behave and how to be a better artist. In doing so, I got to admire how they actually work, which was terrific. My show is really about a rejection of mod- ern art and a return to beauty. I dug back in time and brought out the patterns of the world and then made them current by re- drawing them with pin-sharp vector graph- ics, making them as beautiful as possible. Then, I applied them to something familiar, the bugs, but when you get up close you re- alize you hardly know anything about these creatures that surround us. My bugs are more related to Alice in Wonderland than Linnaeus’s Taxonomy . We are all about to see them for the first time, as I have not seen the installation either. It’s behind the cur- tain.
Steampunk Bumble Bee decorative kite, Silk stretched and sewn around an aluminum wire frame, apx. 7 feet x 7 feet.
Books mentioned: Alice in Wonderland, The Time Ma- chine, Frankenstein, Linnaeus’ Philosophia Botanica
Stephen Shooster, aka Shoosty
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