Saturday, November 14, 2020

 Don Desper is an artist working in Pawtucket. He submitted some interesting work to ART SPEAKS OUT, and the statue he is standing with in his portrait is layered with texture and details. Beyond this, I'll let him speak for himself.

I’m called Don Desper
The sculpture is called “The Widow”
I use to take the Time/Life book about
Michelangelo to bed with me when 
I was a child
I never read it
I love volleyball
I’ve had sixteen operations 
I’ve broken both arms and legs
I can’t remember not making art
I’m from Walnut Creek CA
I went to six different colleges
I have a garden
I’ve written over three thousand poems
and over fifty songs
I spent a year in an ashram 
I’m a non-believer
I play the ukulele 
I’m poor
I think I’m a good person, some don’t
I hitchhiked over twenty thousand miles
Bill Nye and I were born on the same day
I don’t have any children 
I don’t have a car
I feed the birds
I’m a stoic
I know a lot of stuff
I have a hard time remembering 
I like short western films and vodka
I’ve never owned a gun
I don’t like brushing my teeth
I don’t use weed eaters or dish washers
I love watermelon 
I can’t spell
I have a clawfoot tub in my studio
I try not to think about killing myself
I don’t have a favorite color
I moved to RI in 2017
I’ve had a hard time but
I like it here

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