jonathan powers

ARTSY

"What I do is add a new safety pin to my booksack everytime I see
injustice done to the poor, the proletariat." the several hundred pins
on his 1950s era canvas Boyscout back pack sack spelled out
"REVOLUTIO"

"I paint. Usually I read some yiddish kabalistic writing then reveal its
mysteries with my art." hands everyone within two chairs his business
card, in the bottom right corner of the card is a copyright mark.

"When I photograph the places I visit, be it Sumatra, Bangalore, Ayer's
Rock, Tiera Del Fuego, Land's End... I always take a photograph of my
arm stretching out, reaching, fingers barely bending over... as if I am
about to clasp the essence of the place, as I do with the composition of
my other work. You know, that is the first time I've ever told an interviewer that.
Those photographs are really just for me. Maybe one day I will have a show
with them. When I am ready."

"I wear a shirt I made that has 'Yes... but what does it really mean?' on the front,
and 'nothing, it means nothing' on the back. I do what I can to spread art."

Wealthy housewife turned writer
"I know I have a novel in me...somewhere. I need to do more contemplation and
rememberance to get it out. And then I can start writing it. I've had significant experiences,
I just don't remember them. That's what my friends in writing seminar say."

it's 100 degrees outside. His attire is not quite as worn and threadbare as that of a homeless man. Ensemble meshes
together too well. He has on a home-made Pink Floyd black trench coat with a stylized
version of the band logo in heavy exterior house-paint yellow on his back. The L in Floyd
is too large and pushes the other letters to the edge of his right shoulder. Brand new tan
leather workboots, tongue on one hanging out. other in, no socks, shoelaces different colors.
Purple velvet hat. Back of his head shaved, hair on top long. Works Floyd into conversations
whenever possible, because all creativity begins with the Wall.