Born in communist Czechoslovakia, already a visible visual art talent, the state used to send me to to special art school after regular school. I do have a lingering memory of my teacher complaining about the endless production of Stalin/Lenin paraphernalia. Several years after the Soviet Block invasion of my country, my family emigrated, first 2 years in Stockholm...ah those eternal dark winters, and then off to America in a classic emigre style, 9 days by boat via the North Sea, entering the New York harbor around the Statue of Liberty. Odd culture shock and movement in the school...more
