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| James D. Bushe (Sir Realist): Born September 2, 1983 in Mount Clemens, Michigan. The youngest of three children born to Donna and David Bushe. His parents divorced when he was just one. Donna remarried when he was five to James J. Mulso. James and his family moved to Chesterfield, MI when he was seven. This is where he spent the remainder of his childhood. James grew up in a subdivision amongst nine other kids his age. They were all poster children for what we call generation Y. His and all his friend's parents worked full-time jobs to support their families and afford their homes and other luxuries. So the parenting was done mostly by older siblings and peers. This being a burden on the older siblings, who wanted a childhood of their own, took it's toll. This resulted to James and his friends turning mostly to each other for support and advice, a family of friends if you will. This family spent most of it's time in the woods that surrounded the subdivision. When they were younger, they built tree forts, played hide and seek, rode bikes, climbed trees, the normal kid stuff. When they grew older it became a place to escape from their harshening realities. It was now a place to drink, smoke cigarettes and pot, experiment with hallucinogenics, and take girlfriends to make out. This being the unhealthy outlet, lead James and a few of his other friends down some dark trails which lead them to trouble with the law, years of probation, a trip here and there to rehabs or the youth home and ultimately to their “rock bottoms”. Throughout James' youth, starting at about the age of five, he had always taken an interest in art, music, and film. He started drawing at a very young age, pretty much when he could hold a crayon, and continued to do so, a bit every day. He really turned to this outlet when he had started getting in trouble. He spent most of his junior high and high school days drawing and writing poetry in class, rarely completing an assignment. James was that kid you hated in class. Very social, always cracking jokes, never studying or doing assignments, but acing most of his tests and passing all of his finals and getting the highest grade in his classes when it came to projects. This left his teachers no other choice but to pass him by the skin of his teeth. By his early high school years, James started caring less about school and more about self-educating himself through experiencing life and reading books. This is the time when he really started focusing on the concepts of his art. Between the age of sixteen and seventeen, James began questioning everything around him. Religion, government, education, our so called “reality”. At this time his brain may have been a little too fragile for this sort of thinking, driving him to anger. The truth can be frightening when you're not ready for it. He began compiling a notebook of poems, short stories, random thoughts and theories. He would turn to this book and review it daily in order to see if he was growing. Doing this is what pulled him out of his funk of madness and anger towards the world. By James' sophomore/junior year, he had a portfolio that was quite impressive, to say the least. It included, drawings from when he was five and up, an etching that he did of a Lamborghini in third grade that won him a scholastics award and put his piece in the Mount Clemens Art Museum, a few sculptures, story boards for comic book ideas, paintings (water color, oil ,and acrylic) and others. When he broke up with his girlfriend at the time ( no name mentioned, for the reason that you might be compelled to hunt her down and personally take her out!), she destroyed the entire collection! Pouring ink on all of the paintings( inscribing them with words like DICK, or ASSHOLE), smashing every sculpture, ripping up every drawing etc. Even though he never cheated or did her wrong, just simply had a change of heart, she still did this out of nothing but pure anger. This left James more heart broken than she could have ever imagined, discouraging him for years to ever create another thing. At the age of nineteen, after a few more ups and downs, various jobs and failed relationships, life's little drama's you could say, James had a few life changing experiences including having a gun put to his head in a party store robbery, where the owner was shot twice in the stomach right in front of him and the owner's wife was beaten. Sometimes it takes the crudity of real life to inspire. That it did, and so he began to create once again. Starting with a conceptual sketch or poem here and there, he began to regenerate his creative mind. Getting back into the swing of things, James found that creating was an even greater release and therapeutic tool than he ever imagined. Being able to express his deepest thoughts and emotions and bringing them to life right before his very own eyes, so that he could examine and understand them fully, was the greatest and most rewarding feeling that he had ever felt. His truly conceptual and surreal understanding of the world around him began to grow in new and exciting ways. This is the point that he decided to let go and finally give in to his own creative mind. Nothing is too weird, too taboo, too controversial, too dark, or too enlightening for this now growing artist. “Open Book” was his first true piece to be completed after his creative drought. It depicts a character of the artist as if his head had been peeled open like an open book for the world to see. His concepts began to take the front seat in all of his following pieces. “Infant in Galaxies” was the first painting completed by “Sir Realist”, an alias the artist felt as if he had transformed into along his journey towards creative enlightenment. He began painting it when he got news of the daughter that he would soon be blessed with. This is also when he labeled himself as a Conceptual Surrealist, since things with labels are usually better understood abroad. In this piece he pulled out all the stops. He used techniques he had learned along the way and experimented with many others, broadening his creative horizon. Every piece created since has been deeper conceptually, finer technically, and all together more impressive as a whole. With every new creation he engorges himself with, he always leaves room to grow artistically. Trying new techniques, fallowing new directions, and ignoring some typical rules when it comes to aesthetics. The artist feels that there are no boundaries when it comes to creating and there are no lines that shouldn't be stepped across or danced upon. This is also a way of living for James or Sir Realist. Always throwing himself to the mercy of the wind, to be taken where ever life or his next creation may lead him. We have only seen a mere glimpse of what this artist has in store for us. As he grows in life, his work will also grow to reflect the knowledge and enlightenment he gains along the way. Sir Realist is not just another art student, for he is completely self-taught. He is a student of life and a true artist. |
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- Current Residence: Macomb, Mi
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- Interests: Art, music, life
- Favourite movie: Waking Life, Buffalo 66, Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind,40 Year Old Vergin,Grandma's Boy,e
- Favourite band or musician: Tool,Led Zeppelin,The Mars Volta,NIN,311,Incubus,RHCP,Pink Floyd,Gruvis Malt, etc...
- Favourite genre of music: all
- Favourite artist: Dali, Grey, Basquiat, Escher, etc...
- Favourite style of art: conceptual
- Personal Quote: I'm never looking down on others because I'm too busy reaching for the stars.
- Tools of the Trade: the right side of my brain
- Email: jdbusheman@hotmail.com
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