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The Mothman's Photographer: The Work of an Artist Touched by the Prophecies of the Infamous Mothman

Monday, May 5, 2014 23:02

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Spurred by the realization that the 9/11 attacks were accurately predicted – in 1967 – by a friend who was seeing Mothman, Seattle artist Andy Colvin began documenting his experiences growing up in West Virginia. The resulting video featured interviews with dozens of paranormal witnesses and experts, including celebrated ufologist John Keel, who originally investigated the sightings in Colvin’s neighborhood. Colvin himself began a long series of interviews on radio and TV shows.

In addition to doing hundreds of hours of interviews, Colvin has so far generated over 3000 pages of writing and several thousand photographs, all devoted to exploring the mysteries of the Mothman phenomenon. This photo book, “The Mothman’s Photographer I,” features 300 of Colvin’s eerie, symbolic images. There are brief descriptions of all photos, an artist’s statement, and a forward by Dave Scott, curator for the Cincinnati Gallery of Conceptual Art.

Colvin’s images dramatically illustrate his theory that birdmen such as Mothman, Garuda, and Thunderbird are actually one and the same – an archetypal, crime-fighting “superhero” from the collective unconscious. The job of this avatar is to send dreams, visions, and psychic messages to ordinary humans, thus stimulating insight, creativity, and intellectual growth.

Regardless of the source, Colvin’s talent as an artist shines through in his drawings and photographs. Colvin’s confidence in his style – rooted in spirituality, intuition, and synchronicity, yet honed by academic work in ethnomusicology, cine-ethnography, and art history – is inspiring. Despite his spare, unblinking technical approach, his work is funny and entertaining. Somehow it achieves a poetic magic. In fact, it has been hailed by some as representing a breakthrough in how we perceive the mysterious. By devoting years to nothing but the audiovisual documentation of his own life, Colvin has produced a body of work that transcends the mundane and defies categorization.

Biography

Andy Colvin is an eclectic artist, filmmaker, writer, musician, and media commentator who has been called “his generation’s Charles Fort,” the “Sherlock Holmes of synchro-conspiracy,” and “one of America’s great, pain-in-the-butt original thinkers.” Colvin was one of the founders of the “xerox” or “street art” movement now popular in galleries from London to L.A. Colvin was also one of the first “spoken word” artists, and is considered by some to be the world’s foremost authority on the mysterious “Mothman” phenomenon, due to his early experiences with the phenomenon and his intensive audovisual documentation of symbols and synchronicities.

Colvin’s often controversial theories have made him a popular speaker on venues like Coast to Coast AM, Ground Zero, NPR, RAI, and PBS, and have gained him a dedicated following. In 2011, Colvin co-hosted the popular conspiracy show, “That Was the Month That Wasn’t,” which examined how the media blends stories to subconsciously “manufacture consent” in the public mind. Colvin currently co-hosts two wide-ranging internet radio shows, “The Stench of Truth” and “The Church of Mabus,” which explore various esoteric topics.

Following in the footsteps of Fortean author John A. Keel, Colvin has blazed a 21st Century trail of investigation into mysteries that have affected mankind for centuries, such as UFOs, creature entities, magic, and the psychology of the human mind. Colvin’s approach is unique in that it blends a background of genuine paranormal experience with decades of research into political science, history, media behavior, and sociology. His understanding of art and symbology has, at times, allowed Colvin to connect dots that previously escaped attention.

In the 1960s, on a West Virginia backroad, Colvin’s neighborhood was hit by a series of mysterious phenomena, such as exotic flying craft, Men in Black, and the intriguing entity now known as “Mothman.” Following these encounters, Colvin found that he could draw, sing, and take pictures, and that he had a photographic memory. He was recognized as a prodigy, and was eventually offered a scholarship to Harvard University. While in college, Colvin broke ground in several then-new disciplines, such as guerilla art, performance art, and “shamanic conceptual” art. In the early 1980s, Colvin made a splash in the New York art world by taking on the persona of “Whiz,” a practitioner of “collaborative art.” This unique approach allowed Colvin to actually work in some manner with several notable artists.

While attending graduate school at the Univ. of Texas at Austin, Colvin helped found U.T.’s celebrated Transmedia Dept. as well as the Austin Film Society, an organization now credited with bringing commercial filmmaking to Texas. In 1985, Colvin used his tuition grant money to purchase the only 8mm camcorder then available, becoming the first filmmaker in Austin to shoot in the new format. His ensuing documentation of the lives of local “slackers” influenced the seminal cult hit that defined Generation-X, “Slacker.” Colvin’s band, “Ed Hall,” appeared in the film and on the soundtrack.

Following graduate school, Colvin worked on Hollywood films, toured with his experimental troupe, The Interdimensional Vortex League (once named America’s “most underground band”), and began making small, ethnographic documentaries about unusual tribes, subcultures, and personalities. His 25-year study of modern Texans, “Multislackers: The Emerging Threat,” is slated for production in 2013.

Colvin’s work has been seen or heard in all 50 states, and in several foreign countries. His writing has appeared in various magazines, including Paranoia, The Stranger, Inside the Grassy Knoll, and D’Art, the arts journal for the Church of the Subgenius. Colvin’s unique career has been studded with various mind-blowing, synchronistic events, some of which allowed him to study with, or work with, some of the greatest creative minds of the 20th Century, including Nam June Paik, Dennis Hopper, David Lynch, Robert Anton Wilson, Laurie Anderson, Daniel Johnston, Vito Acconci, Bruce Bickford, Ron English, Frank Kozik, and the Butthole Surfers.

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