AMERICAN LANDSCAPE

yo!.. a very american artist... innit!



ok it's back to the book..

you know..

the one about me..

about the artist in residence..

whoops there goes another rubber tree plant..


1985

Coca-Cola Company introduces New Coke,
Heysel Stadium Disaster,
Unabomber kills his first victim,
CD's Introduced,
Wreck of the RMS Titanic Located,
Mexico City Earthquake kills 9,000,
Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior is sunk by French Agents,
As the spread of aids increases Governments round the world..
start screening Blood donations for AIDS.
 
On the technology front the first .com is registered..
and the first version of Windows is released Ver 1.0 .
Terrorists continue to perform acts of terrorism..
including the hijack of TWA Flight 847 and the Italian Cruise Liner "Achille Lauro ".
 
Famine in Ethiopia is shown more on TV News in July..
 Live Aid concerts around the world raise many millions to help the starving in Africa
and the pop industry in US joins together to sing
"We Are The World"

How Much things cost in 1985
Yearly Inflation Rate USA 3.55%
Year End Close Dow Jones Industrial Average 1546
Interest Rates Year End Federal Reserve 10.75%
Average Cost of new house $89,330
Median Price Of and Existing Home $75,500
Average Income per year $22,100.00
Average Monthly Rent $375.00
Average Price for new car$9,005.00
Below are some Prices for UK guides in Pounds Sterling
Average House Price 40,169
Gallon of Petrol 1.88
Yearly Inflation Rate UK 9.50%
Interest Rates Year End Bank of England 11.38%


MONUMENT


There was this book I read..

The Unfinished War: Vietnam and the American Conscience 

by Walter H. Capps


at that time no monument to those who served had yet been created

so I came up with a series of paintings..

working title - monument..

originally I imagined two of these canvases..

side by side..

anyway..

as you will be aware..

there is now a superb monument..


The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is a 2-acre (8,093.71 m²) U.S. national memorial..
in Washington, D.C.
It honors service members of the U.S. armed forces who fought in the Vietnam War,
service members who died in service in Vietnam/South East Asia,
and those service members..
who were unaccounted for during the war.


my little idea..

was not in vain..

as it morphed into..


AMERICAN LANDSCAPE

so there became 10 canvases 69 x 96 inches

and many more images on card..

plus some smaller canvases..

work carried out over 30 years or so..

see the gallery here

and here