Dustin Hodo, worcester
Member Since June 2009
Artist Statement Im a self taught artist, the black sheep, and middle child of my five sibling family. my father died when i was five and the only thing i remember of him is his death (because i saw it first hand)and how he used to wrestle with us on the living room floor. Two years after his death my mother found another man and he put us all through hell for a more than a decade so when i was sixteen i moved out after letting him beat the shit out of me because my mother said not to fight him so she could take him to court and she never did.
When i turned 18 i recieved eight thousand dollars in reporations for being tromatized from my fathers death and when i graduated in 07, i felt that the money would never fix the damage done so i blew all of my money in less than a year, and took the rest of the year off to catch up on the childhood i lost.
Then i left everything behind and started traveling with a petitioning group baning imenent domain abuse and affirmative action in schools and work in st. louis, then i decriminalized marijuana, and decreased state income tax in massachusettes where i now live.
now im with the girl who i believe to be my soulmate and we are preparing to be parents although i lost my job during a state of emergency ice storm for not being able to make it to work and now the economy is failing and im still out of work and fear that armeggedon is apon us.
I havent cried in years but now i cry for my unborns future, i can only hope that if there is a god he will help me fix my situation and help me do what i must.
I am curently alcohol and drug free.
I wouldnt normally tell people these things but since i dont know you and to help you understand my symbolic/theatrical/renisance/sureal art i figure you should know. Alot of my art is based on death, religion(although i deny the entities of god and the devil thear message and mine will always collide in my works), addiction,abuse,recovery and distortion of or ulturnate reality.
As of right now i can draw , paint in acrylic,pen and ink, tattoo, and airbrush, but soon i believe i will be able to teach myself water color and am alllowing my girlfriend to teach me oil painting so keep an eye out.
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