Sep 30, 2019
Tom Patterson has been curating and writing about contemporary folk, visionary, and outsider art for more than 30 years. He is known for his biographies of Georgia visionaries Howard Finster and Eddie Owens Martin, aka St. EOM, as well as “Contemporary Folk Art: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum” (2001) and countless articles in Aperture, BOMB, Folk Art, Public Art Review and Raw Vision, among many others. Here we explore the relationship between artist and source, transformative experiences of expanded consciousness, rewiring social conditioning, trapping spirits, synchrotism, and the singular obsession that grips some of us to pull down experiences from visionary planes of consciousness into visual language.
Tom shares a selection from his forthcoming memoir describing his psychedelic awakening in Huautla de Jimenez in 1975 (working title: Chance Operations: Cultural Adventures of a Fledgling Scribe. Copyright by Tom Patterson, 2019). You can email him at Tom41052@aol.com and find many of his articles online. More podcasts where podcasts are found, at MauraJames.com, and on instagram @maurajames or @unbroken.chain.
[“This Must Be The Place” - Talking Heads]