WADE is an artist who expresses himself in many media. He paints self-portraits on a variety of surfaces including toasters and other people's artwork, and has recently turned his attention to dismantling, reconstituting, and painting discarded, often headless dolls which are then nestled together in the "basket o'babies." He is also a fixture at Southern California poetry readings and has published a book of poems entitled Madcap: Spontaneous Western Haiku by a Guy Named Wade. One of his first art pieces involved a doll's head impaled on a skimmer pole, entitled "Baby Wade's Head on a Stick." It was utilized for emphasis during his poetry readings and lead to his self-portrait series. Wade is going to heaven, simply because he is brave enough to be a seventh-grade Language Arts teacher (P.C. for "English teacher.") He lives in Southern California with his wife and their furry children and is hard at work on the next painting in his admittedly egotistical self-portrait series. |
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