please check 4 truth my name iz keith vipperman...... i have a freind that use 2 say i am an imperfect person in an imperfect world doing the best i can do with Gods help... that what i aspire 2 bee he said it better than i am able 2 iam a fine artist, iam not a folk artist but i admire thier work i might be what a folk artist outsider artist might look like if they knew some sophisticated color theory and i use line and color to try to mock false 2 dimentional perpective and use techniqes that do't focus until you step back i don't know why i do it the way i do only that if i did'nt i wood naught bee me i also do my paintings to where there are multiple points of view both artistically and humanity wise. and meaning you should know i enjoy "sneeking into my shows to gauge the reaction taken by the viewer i like to think of them as a visually appealing as well as thought provoking hilbilly amalgamation of roeshack blot mmpi test iwould challange people to to learn a little about themselves quietly by which point of view they see first i know 4 q a fact there are sum people who seem 2 bee blinded by thier own dim lights while prenteding..or maybe honestly and sincerly hopeing to know the way eye no this because at times in my life... i have been that person... you should know ther are precious pieces of me in my work... precious because i can tell you what it feels like to regain memories you didn't know you had lost... i had a bizarre and complicated set of aggrevating conditions one of which was from a paritonsilar abcess that i got at a hard pinpoint time i was sick with throat infections and high fevers as a child often i know this because i had to study enough medicne fropm the pdr and eye am very familiar with the priciples of anatomy and physiology as well as the clinical research being done johns hopkins is my favorite for cutting edge anything i want you too understand i had to diagnose myself then take my doctor by the hand and lead him to the truth and to introveinious vancomyacin, the only 1 they hadn't yet tried my doctor is a good man, i had a very complex case i now like always wish him well he most likely thinks i'm a dumass thats ok i have grown used to people telling me i couldn't possibly be doing what i was clearly doing I call these people arrogant airheads to myself and enjoy a private chuckle i have learned the lesson that i cannot and shouldnot try to change other people from thier nature i'm fairly shure eye know the spirochete bacterium that cause my abcess because when i go my memory back i remember an unhappy little hog farmer boy who took great pride in urinating on his father prize "SPF" disease free hogs i know the pathology of the spred of this bacteria is when urine contacts mucous mebranes ie. pig eyes , noses ears... i do see the humor in this scenario now and laugh about it but it wasn't funny when i was crying through the pain and the helplessness i find it ironic but not unique that the pigs got treated and cured but i diddn't, idon't think they were as cognusent about aseptic menigittiss as they are now my medical record cannot acually say aseptic menigitis or leptospirosis they may not believe it but i do not wish them any discomfort you see i have been that asshole at times in my life the person who was 2 smart to listen and actually using quantatative and qualitative metods troblesoot for the truth in science it is the scientific method in business its management by objrctives of course the abcess gets worse when you work 100 hour weeks, ...partyi with the nick name wildman,and, playing softball on a very competitive league, and messing around with my guitar and my speed boat.... and did i mention i love women there were not enough hours in a day to do everything i had set off to accomplish so i did'nt get a lot of sleep some of the words 2 describe me that most people who actually know me seem 2 be driven, and sincere, honest, i also have the distintion of being able 2 tell you what it feels like to be a homeless failed... garbageman while trying very hard to succeed and being a decent human being with out partying i'm the the one that was homeless while keeping county club members rolex watches and wallets safe while never giving a thought to stealing money to try to get a place of my own ican tell what it feels like to get the honer and privilidge of trying to keep shoes clean on a pro golf tournemnt where it raines every day and i was not able to do the job i felt some fine people deserved fine people like hale irwin, peter jacobson, davis love the III, and my personal favorites as human beings bob estes and ph horgan. bob estes was just getting started good but went on to do quite well for himself. he would take the time to chit chat with his warm texas pesonality with us little people he is in my opinioion one of the finest human being i have ever met peter jacobson is one of the funniest along with gene deckerhoff that i have ever heard i made it a point to "stay in the area to get my wonderful memories i worked for a woman golf pro named becky saures and an ast pro named jon hill they were wonderful human beings to me ...a nobody ii have so many things i want to express in my art of course you need to picture the style i'm looking 4, i'ts norman rockwell on acid while thinking about andy warhol (idid apainting about what that might look like} ihave not lived what you wood call a normal life i might perhaps bee the person you might want 2 ask about how it ifeels to experience many nonstandard things you should know i have a sense of humor that eye think is why i'm still alive you might want 2 know iam dyslexic butt.... i sum tymes mispell words for thier met -A 4-rick effect isumetimes have complex threads of competeint thouhgt s that in my please know i like ee cummings wood take delight imaking people legally have to misspell my copyrighted words please forgive my xxx-zooo-burr-rents to get out stuff i leave choppy sentences giving the false impression that i'm illiterat life is a pain in the ass when you have the vocabulary from reading, mitchner, harrold robbins, frank slaughter , vonneget, emmit fox, the bible from cover to cover and many more including joseph wambah i actually know how it comes out in the end in the last page of revelations the bible eye mean because i have actually red it i'm amazed at the number of christian ministers that apperently think the world in comming 2 an end. maybe they should get away from the accountinting reports and portfolios, and advertising plans two actually understand the message. back 2 dyslexia I do naught claim 2 have super natual powers einsteinlike inn-tell-ect or the grace of paul i was born at mcdill airforce base in tampa my father was a captain in the strategigic air command before getting his phd at the university of missouri supposedly my third word after mommy and daddy was "aaahplane" i'm one of the few people who can tell you what it feels like to bee in the highly gifted classes while at the same time being with the "dummy" (i believe thats what we called it back then) class in reading..... ewe sea i wasdyslexic before they knew what dyslexia was iwas was told i just wast applying myself when in truth i have normally given huge effort 2 anything i do i am a classic pure bred type A at heart I had bleeding ulcers and blood presure of 220 over 180 when i was in my early and mid twenties and was told by the wize dr vroom i had 1 to three years to live i was 25 dr vroom was wrong about alot of things this happened while i takeing the worst store of a national co to a 100% increase in sales with the help of some very special co workers i hired, using a plan the genius's at oakbrook illanois assured me would not work... it did but i almost destroyed myself (note, look at my painting how to spot a purebred type A person, i gave this painting to a man who was a disabled veteren and was leagally blind... he was collecting money to get back to the blind winter olympics where he had competed in..... downhill skiing.... I figured I must of have been thinking of someone like him and myself when ipainted it so i gave it to him' both him and myself saw the humor in giving a legally blind downhill skier a painting but he assured me he had a special computer magnifire that made it possible 2 see it) back 2 dyslexia...i warned ewe eye might dew this ;-)~ thank God i went two the wonerfullelementary school named brownell in lincoln, nebraska my father was a prfessor and researc scientist we lived at 6036 walker avenue those are still magic numbers in my mind jonny rodger jerry taggee, jeff kinney, and guy ingles were some of my heros then if i remember correctly they had a fairly decent team... they had very good schools there and luckily i had a bad southern accent... in the midwest a souther accent is considered a speech impediment so luckily i got another label to further ostrisize an already painfully... shy, little boy. i say luckily because in a twist of fate or devine intervention the cure for a speech impediment and dyslexia is the same phone-et-ticks by breaking the words down into saller bits i would theorize it was just the prescription for words that swam around unfocused and uneducated by so ... i was shy litltle boy who liked to draw and scored consistantly in the 99.9 percentile on the stanford achievemnt test in later years because he learned to read you should know i had the restlessness and energy of a denace the menace on meth i just got a nice little mind picture of what that might look like in my world ha ha. please excuse my exubvrant quick shifting writing style ididnt know i had any talent in this area until my freshman on demand writing sample at a communiyty college got publish in the school fine art magazine i had a wonderful teacher who when i explained my problem with spelling and grammer while at the same time having a huge vocabulary she took the time to tell me to let it all hang out and i wrote "A Taste of honey" thank God for spell check I breifly flirted with becoming a journalism major until i cracked myself up in laughter at the mind picture of a dislecix journalist and his foibles of course at this same time i was emotionally devastated by a very tragic auto accident that killed 2 people (not my fault like that matterss with death) i know what life changing episode feels like of couse i was being sued by the person who actually caused the wreck after I diddn't sue them and around this time i had to have hip surgery and was on crutches and a verydear freind of mine poured gasoline onherlf and commited suicide at just about the same time i was calling her to cheer her up because i had jsut found out she was out of the hospital (note painting fire and rain 4 pam) that i donate to the aids art action to try and help them out a little bit. bcause i feel helpless while being on a stress related disabilty get a mind picture of a dyslexic, type a, creatively talented person trying to relax so they can get well enough to work while at the same time living in utter poverty pretty funny huh did i mention my most profound skill is photography but i couldn't use the darkroom at the college i was paying to go 2 because they felt uncofortable with me note painting entitled too fsu from somebody who loves you with a message you need to here from those of us with disabilities" which i donated to bid bend cares aids art auction last year worked into the myriad of things happening all at once are the words I AM NOT AN ANIMAL .THE ONLY RESPONSE I HAVE GOTTEN FROM THEM IS THEY APPARRENTLY HAVE THIER motives... thier action... there actual damage to me for mine and want people to think that they for some reason are afraid of me.... i have and will continue to pray for them welcome to my world please check 4 truth keith vipperman has know people who have commited murder surved thier time and come back to contribute to society.. that are far ...far better human beings than some administrators with phds are at florida state i have thier e-mail burned on disk with thier words please note the communications dept, the art history dept are top notch one of the people who is afraid of my charictar was actually locked out of the art history dept for giving fake grades and fake credits this good woman actually went up and down the halls complaining about the art history dept.... she couldnt believe they were mistreateing her so...... this woman filed a plice report stateing that i had threatened the computer system when i merely called in and ppointed out that if she reformatted her computer hardrive to hide evidence of her actions.this wood bee a violation of FL. statutes there was another event so misguided i won't even discuss it except to say it was a very private situation in which the true facts were never in evidence please note i did do things i regretted doing and take full responsibility for what did 20 years ago the good people at florida state did not even check my side of the story untill our kangaroo court to make it more complicated i didn't have full memory to defend my self against mispeseptions until my abcess broke though an infection in my wisdom tooth while working on my masters here in which i had a trial under oath with a recording and which iwas was cleared. the police report was not changed to reflect this the last time i checked ihave not heard from these fine people iam and always have been a very decent human being. ... I have stopped to collect my reputation before moving forward with my art career and life my name is keith vipperman i sign my work kvip because thats the way i signed my paperwork when i was running a million dollar a year business and while i'm proud of the name vipperman its much too long to put on a painting my last name is well known in the halls of virginia tech and duke if you ever want to stick out like a sore thumb try being a dyslexic creative artistick type in a family full of scientist and businesspeople too add 2 this irony i cleped a whole year of collage except for humanities i din't know iwas and artist it never crossed my mind as a posibillity remember bee nice out there eye always try 2 bee nice nice does not mean doormat 10/31/2007 happy halloween all of the above is true that is the short version the only thing i would change if i could and i can but....eye won't iz that when you read the part locked out of the art history dept. i wish eye wood have put "locked out of the art history departments computer system the one that has official grades and school credits) this "fine" human being also told me some things 2 my face i doubt eye ever repeat unless it is in a court of law at thier insistance of course after 3 years of waiting 4 them to clean ............thier............. mess i can't 4 the life of figure out why some people act the way they do but please know there is a part of me thatis sad for the honestly misguieded person who was mistaken and sorry 4 thier uncalled 4 actions i have been that person before in life and i no for a fact the truth no matter how pitifully small ......... and non aweinspiring .... can bee built on i knew a man in talla hassee that was far brighter than my self named "jack Buford" who used to say he had no sympathy 4 liars cheats and theives who when they found out they were honestly wrong.... they kept going the wrong way.... if i remember right he said he would pray 4 them something tell me jack still does from somewhere up in heaven my name is keith vipperman i am a decent human being i am not an animal please don't treat me like 1 |
Our next Gallery Contest will begin on October 15th, 2006 and will be entitled "The Essence of Fall". All Gallery contestants will be able to upload one picture of their artwork that relates to the season of Fall; whether it's a Fall photograph, a painting of leaves, or a piece of jewelry or pottery that relates to the season of Fall. Once you add the picture of your piece, then others can vote on it.