Pieter van Voorhis

the artist

A 27 year-old writer of poems and short stories.

A member of a group of like-minded writers, mostly in their twenties and thirties.

the art

Let others create illusions of light and airy magic, or of darkness and depravity. The truth is to be found in real things and events, rendered with as much authenticity and as little judgment as possible. Craft, observation, discipline, and detachment are paramount.

The painters in his group (many of them admirers of Andy Warhol) do not necessarily strive for physical reality (that's what cameras are for), but their abstractions are carried out methodically, often determind by mathematical processes, and never adjustted on a whim.

the beret

The hat, if it's comfortable, is something unostentatious, possibly a bit abused but not conspicuously so. One favorite is a Baltimore Orioles baseball cap (post-1989 style).

Submitted by James Rogers (jrogers@peabody.jhu.edu), on Saturday, August 19, 1995, from Baltimore, MD, USA