Chris Gage
Rhode Island School of Design
2 College St, #0613
Providence, RI 02903

Artists' lifestyles are interesting.

Some people idolize Andy Warhol's lifestyle: living with all the weirdos in New York, making bizarre movies and prints.
Some people idolize Jackson Pollock's lifestyle: romantically self-destructing over the sauce.
Some people idolize Leonardo da Vinci's lifestyle-- I mean, come on, who wouldn't like being the original Renaissance man?
I prefer Francisco Goya's final years: completely deaf, despairing humanity and locking himself away in some out-of-the-way estate, and frescoing his walls with the most disturbing paintings you'll ever see, and painting them only for himself. That is very awesome.

One of my favorites is Saturn Devouring His Sons.

Forgot to tell you: RISD--- you are now looking at, or reading the text of, a future caffeine-addicted workaholic art nerd.

In one weekend I completed (or came close to completing) a canvas of the dimensions 6' x 7' for school-- it was the best weekend ever.

Goodbye again.

RISD or Carnegie Mellon?

Don't nobody say nothing about Providence or Pittsburgh, I happen to like both of them.

I know, I'm breaking the silence again, this time not for any good reason, I'm just bored and don't want to work any more on my 10-page essay about Kurt Schwitters's Merzbau (The Cathedral of Erotic Misery).

Suggestions for a paper title?