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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Rufus@frockstarvintage, post: 9436117, member: 5939&quot;]Thanks for posting [USER=3235]@Drew[/USER] - not only do I appreciate the art &amp; artist, I appreciate being reminded of that Pavement album, which will probably play on repeat all day - alternating with Slanted &amp; Enchanted. </p><p>I was lucky to take 2 weeks in the late 90s with three NYC friends, load into a huge old LTD &amp; travel the entire east coast meeting, visiting, &amp; buying outsider art - NYC to Virginia, the Carolinas, Athens/Atlanta, Florida, over to Alabama where our pal &amp; LTD&nbsp; provider Stuto introduced us to his friend Marcia (of Marcia Weber Art Objects, an Outsider Gallery in Wetumpka, AL ), back to Georgia (Savannah/Cumberland Island and then back home to NYC.</p><p>We actually met &amp; spent time with these artists which was a whole other wonderful thing. Many are now deceased - Jimmie Lee Sudduth (who used the range of red hued clay found on his property - proudly stating exactly how many red variations he mixed &amp; used as literal paint, he blew me away, just an Angel in human form, one image of his white dog painted repeatedly, ‘Toto’ - he admitted he’d owned some 20-odd Toto-pups over the years), Mose Tolliver (Marcia warned us to get to his place early am because he’d be drunk - &amp; unfriendly! - by noon. Google his ‘Watermelon Girl’ subject for a treat), Lonnie Holley, Charlie Lucas…. Most painters but found object, metal/welding, sand sculpture, wire sculpture (like a big ball of random wires…but as it slowly turned, faces, symbols, etc appeared)</p><p>I could go on, and I do, and have lol but this intense outsider education/immersion, frequently lead by the actual artists themselves made a huge impact personally. Not every piece and/or artist was exactly my taste, but every single one shared a singular phenomenal vibe : Peace. They seemed super evolved and childlike at once - innocent. Occasionally drunk, frequently high, one was released from jail &amp; rolled up in a cab as we perused art in every tree, shrub, against their house, stacked on a porch - Beauty in every bit of earth across acres. I urge anyone vaguely interested to start with Marcia’s website as there are many artists. </p><p>I am going to be quiet y’all pardon me. [USER=255]@reader[/USER] We visited Finster’s property, so great. And your Haring story reminded me I have a big graphic shopping bag from his Pop Shop, do you remember that bit of 1980s NYC? Yay, finis![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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