True Blue is proud to welcome “AFTP” as our local artist of the month for June. “AFTP” is the alter-ego of one of our regular customers, who wished to remain anonymous during this show and let the pieces speak for themselves.
The following artist’s statement/origin myth was sent to us by “AFTP” as an introduction to this month’s exhibit:
“Once upon a little while ago a lonesome idea was born in the rusty, corrugated tin shack margins between a dead end and a bottle neck. Stray dogs barked at its scrap-metal body and alley cats sharpened their claws on its wounded pride until there was barely a twittering stump of its former self left. But nothing lasts forever and one fine day before the idea had disappeared completely, a big clumsy itinerant troll with a soft spot for wounded birds, tripped over this shrinking violet, picked it up, opened up his skull cap and put that little bee in his bonnet like it was meant to be. From that day forth, the big nobody felt like a somebody, the little idea flourished and the two spoke as one. And the many words that were spoken became the images you now see in the four walls that make up the somewhere in the middle of the nowhere we are all going.” – AFTP
