I have a stack of big pads in the basement filled with ads, newspaper and magazine pages, posters etc. from the late 80’s, early 90’s. I had to move them this afternoon to find way we no longer able t stream to our downstairs speakers. I came across a couple of large Tom Irish (real name – wow) postcards that drew me in. I don’t remember where I picked them up. I looked Tom up online and found he’s from Springville, New York. I had to look that up too – just south of Buffalo. He describes himself as a “visual artist whose style is outsider/folk art, and if you don’t like it, don’t look at it.” He was drafted on his 19th birthday to serve in Vietnam and he recorded his combat experience in a diary of sketches. I would love to see that. I may have to track him down.
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