Richard Kelly
Springville, UT - United States
Richard Kelly - Fine Artist
Member Since: 01/21/2012
I'm old enough to remember party lines, passenger trains, and drive-in movies. My brother and I used to sleep outside during the summer because our sleeping quarters--the attic of a run-down farmhouse--would get too blasted hot during the day. One night thirteen puppies crawled inside my sleeping bag and licked my toes. Back then, it was possible to see more than five stars in the night sky.
I know someone who tells wonderful stories but can't write worth beans. I can write, but I don't have any stories to tell. I don't watch television and I wouldn't even own one but people keep giving them to me because they think i'm missing out. Ants are more interesting than television. There's nothing on television, and I'd rather spend my life creating something than consuming nothing.
There are those who dismiss fractal art as something anyone can do. Perhaps they are right. Maybe a fractal is the twenty-first century equivalent of a doily. My grandmother had some plastic doilies adorning her home, and boy they were kitschy. When she died, she left me some doilies she crocheted by hand and they're really quite delicate and beautiful. I cherish those doilies.
