SWAMP GAS

Three weeks following the (in)famous Dexter-Hillsdale, Michigan UFO sightings of March, 1966, I entered into this life just a few miles down I-94 in Detroit, Michigan...and into a country fraught with a far-off war and a cultural, social and racial revolution.  Meanwhile, The Beatles were in Abbey Road Studios recording what would become the Paperback Writer/Rain 45 rpm and newspapers all over the United States, and especially in Michigan, printed front page stories of strange objects in our skies, oftentimes witnessed by our police officers and other credible witnesses

On Monday, December 12, 1994, sometime between 1 a.m. and 5 a.m., I awoke to an odd, electronic voice imploring me to "WAKE UP. WAKE UP. WAKE UP."  My shoulder was repeatedly prodded until I opened my eyes.  I then saw a small orange flickering flame atop my blanket that was quickly growing brighter.  Moments later the contents of my second floor apartment were burning out of control.

So it goes.

In 1996, following several dramatic UFO encounters around Ann Arbor, Michigan (illustration) Mutual UFO Network (MI MUFON) investigators asked me to assist them as a sketch artist in cases involving alleged encounters with 'aliens' and UFOs and with the MUFON's Abduction Transcription Project.  My alien-related artwork was displayed at the 1997 MUFON International Symposium in Grand Rapids, MI.   It was there that Dr. Jodi Dean noticed the pieces and later included them in her seminal socio-political survey, Aliens In America

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GALLERY SHOWS:
NEOINTEGRITY group exhibit (Derek Eller Gallery, NYC, 2007)

INTERVIEWS:
artUS Magazine, "Wake The Sleepers" by Lisa Kirk and Keith Mayerson (May/June 2005)

ILLUSTRATION AND GRAPHICS:
ALMANAC OF ALIEN ENCOUNTERS by Eric Elfman, Illustrator (Random House, Inc., 2000)
FAT MAN AND LITTLE BOY by Scott Carr, Illustrator (Plastic Farm #9. March 2005)
STAR KIDS by Dr. Richard Boylan, cover Illustration (Blue Star, 2005)
ALIEN SCRIPTURES by Rev. Michael J.S. Carter, M. Div., cover Illustrator (Blue Star, 2005)
A BOX OF BIRDS by The Church, CD insert art contributor (Thirsty Ear Records, 1999)
THE OTHER SKY by Mellas and Caywood, Illustrator (Blue Star, 2000)
ALIENS IN AMERICA by Jodi Dean, contributor (Cornell University Press, 1998)
THE BUZZRATS, compact disc and website grafx (Ann Arbor, MI alt-something rock band)