![]() ![]() He urged me to always question authority, stay away from drugs, and keep getting straight As so one day I could pay the bills. He told me about his life and his methods. ![]() To me, it was the equivalent of Rilke writing back to the young poet. An artist- a real artist!-had written me back! There was a 14-page hand-written note from Winston and probably 50 pages of color photocopies of his work and press clippings. I ran to the kitchen table, tore it open, and dumped out its contents. Then one day a huge, stuffed manila envelope came in the mail. As I remember it, nobody in the class heard back from their artist. (I have the letter somewhere…but unfortunately, not the sketch!) A few months went by. Here’s his address.” I sent Winston a two-page letter using a ransom note font in Microsoft Word, telling him about me and my band, asking him about his technique, his influences…I even had the audacity to include a sketch of an idea I had for a piece he might want to attempt. The curator finally replied: “Stop bugging me, kid. I used my dad’s e-mail account and sent probably half a dozen e-mails to a gallery curator I found online, asking for Winston’s home address. Most of the class picked their artists out of a catalog. ![]() I had a great art teacher, Robyn Helsel, who assigned us a project where we had to pick a contemporary artist and write to them. I checked out the liner notes, and found out it was done by a collage artist named Winston Smith: Two years previous, they’d just put out their album, Insomniac, with an insane-looking cover. Green Day was the coolest band in the world. ![]()
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