Vizel

the artist

Vizel hasn't left his studio in five years. Produces all kinds of works, from unplayable musical instruments to watercolors to conceptual art, jotted down in strips of paper and baked into ceramic fortune cookies. Everything accumulates in a warehouse three times the size of the Hearst castle. Has a permanent retrospective show, the only one he's ever done. It is about 17 years out of date, and will probably always will be. It's outlived 4 curators. The show is updated every other week.

the art

Since I already did that above, I will make a small bio. He was born to an antiquarian and the mistress of a european dictator, of a country that no longer exists. He taught himself to read with works of Baudelaire Ducasse, Poe, an Swedenborg. Also the family Chronicles of Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl, a spanish nobleman who also was a Native American Other than that, he started painting at 15 and has not stopped since.

the beret

It's a medieval skullcap or a WWI pilot's cap.

Quotes from Vizel:"Could you repeat that again one more time once more, please."

Submitted by Ricardo Vinos-Zelaya (ricardo@sonic.net), on Monday, July 31, 1995, from Guerneville,CA,USA