Artists of the Orient

Are you still into painting? I thought you gave that up and got a real job…

I knew a shaman once and I’m not talking your North American alternative lifestyle type shaman. This guy was a shaman’s shaman. I liked talking to him or just hanging with him. He was a bit of …

I said no to giving my painting to the magazine and I had to call the police to get my paintings back from the restaurant.

That reflection you mentioned can be a living nightmare as well..

Let me start at the beginning. We connect on the cell phone. I’ll ride across town on my bicycle; we’ll hook up at your place.

So I put on a motorbike rain-kit and ride across town through …

John Miller (AJM Photography) recently won the Domestic Art Group Avatar Challenge with "An Incident Involving Four Bottles…" and is the subject of this artist interview.

You live in Taiwan. A day, a month, a year, 5 years, 10, the question will come up why did you come here? It’s some how the most profound thing a Chinese can ever say to you. After 10 years you…

I love Kris Kristofferson.

Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose,
Nothing don’t mean nothing honey if it ain’t free, now now.
And feeling good was easy, Lord, when Bobby san…

i would send a message
but the mailbox is missing
i am stuck here moaning for your kiss
is it always like this?

can it really be the end
Of all we know
no it won’t be really be gone
th…

she likes just like a woman
she breaks like a woman
ain’t it it finally the end?

bob dylan says you fake just like a woman
i say you pretend like a little girl
you bleed and I say oh dea…

i am sittin’ here
listen to Gil Parris
sing
"rainy night in Georgia"

why the blues you say
no other music approaches the depth of feeling
that I need tonight

drunk I am
so what
go…

i heard all the lines
i saw all the times
you say you are true
but we all know it is you

why care after all this time
why give a damn
who thinks that it is all light and sun
i once did…

These nights seem to lend no comfort in our pillows
Eyes gaze out the window over to the bay
where I kissed you months ago
Black waters mock my eyes
with the image of you running home to me…

I saw a kitten get on the train tonight and she preened. She didn’t acknowledge me in my hide—as elaborate as it was. Staged disinterest. She sensed me though. Cats don’t miss much, especially …

Men’s secrets. We’ve got’em,
Big time,
They’re treasures on ships,
We’ll go down with,
They’re horror stories,
Of the measure of, “The horror…”

So we keep them secret,
And live them ou…

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The eight images I’ve just posted are a glimpse of my time in New York, late June 2008. The snaps of Laos already on my bubble were taken a few weeks after leaving NYC. So much for chronologic…

Ben is a Sculpture and a artist of unique abilities