Hoogy Hoog

the artist

Hoogy noticed at an early age that attention could be had by creating pictures. Unfortunately, this became a mechanism that functioned almost like a narcotic. Although everyone around her succeeded, Hoogy slipped further and further into her own personal oblivion. Questions of mediocrity constantly haunted her spirit and her time. Yet she needed the escape of the paint and canvass.

the art

Hoogy painted the same two scenes over and over again. One was a reproduction of a New York neighborhood she had lived in and the other the country. The New York scene always had a fruit, book, and candy store. The country scene always contained a running white fence.

the beret

Hoogy always wore a rather large beret because she found that it concealed her eyes when she was in public. She could pull the hat over her eyes and fantacize all sorts of greatness.

Submitted by Hoogy Hoog , on Wednesday, 26 June, 1996