Aren't 'Lives in Art' usually subsidized by 'Focussed Mediocrity'?

T.S. Eliot--the banker; Maya Angelou—streetcar conductor; Charles Bukowski—postal clerk; Leonardo DaVinci-- armament designer; Robert Frost—light trimmer; Robert Burns—tax collector; Harvey Peckar--hospital file clerk; Walt Whitman- government clerk; Herman Mellville--Deputy Customs Inspector; Henri Rousseau--customs officer; ........and this list goes into tens of thousands......A life, in ART, has always been 'second tier'...that is, until we normalize the innovations that arose from the thinking and doing of those to whom monuments are later, often much, much later, erected...to those that produced those incomprehensible shiny, black inscrutable monoliths that stick and stone casters both worship and destroy.... ....well, the message is clear enough!

genetic interlink

my father, mother.....and their only child.....me!   below, a rather sardonic photo of my father who died in his early 30's....tight-lipped,  and buttoned-up, until The End....    

THE DAYS....AND NIGHTS....OF SWEATY YOUTH.......

I lived, as a child, in an old house that had no A/C.....we had cars with no A/C....I went to a school that had no A/C.......took dance classes with no A/C.......only department stores....just a few of them...and movie theaters provided that comfortable 'luxury' ....until the mid-50s', as "units" became compact enough....and cheap enough.....for 'everyone'.......Today, I'm reliving those years....as both my home and car A/Cs are non-functioning.........I've been putting ice cubes in the aquarium to keep the fish alive until the Central Unit is restored to service....tomorrow..........and I'm unwilling to shell out $1300-2000 to 'service' the car's 'unit'.......It's going to be a long, hot summer, I think........