Wyeth gave America a prim and flinty view of Puritan rectitude, starchily sentimental, through parched gray and brown pictures of spooky frame houses, desiccated fields, deserted beaches, circling buzzards and craggy-faced New Englanders. He died in his sleep, said Hillary Holland, a spokeswoman for the Brandywine River Museum, The Associated Press reported. I may have lost his religion, but found my soul.Andrew Wyeth, one of the most popular and also most lambasted artists in the history of American art, a reclusive linchpin in a colorful family dynasty of artists whose precise realist views of hardscrabble rural life became icons of national culture and sparked endless debates about the nature of modern art, died Friday at his home in Chadds Ford, Pa. I traded in the church pulpit for a camera and my, now trademark, sequin Santa suit documenting music and arts festival around the country. I have contributed to a number of music festivals and newspapers including the L.A.
Since emerging from that head splitting experience, I began a journey out of Christian ministry into a career of festival and news photojournalism.
There I was thrown into America’s most eclectic, provocative, and combustible arts festival called Burning Man. It all started in the summer of 2002, for me, a Southern Baptist preacher who threw little more than a cheap camera, a Jesus costume, and a pyramid of canned chili into the back of a 1983 Volvo station wagon that chugged its way into the Black Rock Desert of northern Nevada. I relived the moment my brain first eggshell-cracked and splattered over all my previously held beliefs about the universe onto the alkali desert floor. Peering through the cracked rear view mirror of my mind‚ I think of my story-what has made me Andrew Wyatt. I\'m heading into the fading sunlight downwind 10 years from the first time I ever stumbled through the dust-covered entrance of the annual Burning Man festival. The diesel engine of the pick-up truck gurgles slowly down the single lane road into the Black Rock desert of Nevada.
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