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Art and life of Chuck Stone
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chuckstone
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January 10, 2000
I'm from S. California
I don't know why, but pictures have been placed on one side or the other with space in between.
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I was living in Newport, California, in my early 20's, surfing, taking Art classes at college, and enjoying life trying to become an Artist. I did a few drawings and paintings for hire, even tried silk-screen, because I love art. I was working at a grocery store to pay for school, even considered going onto the respected Art Center school to study Graphic Design. Then, at 25 years old, I was in a bad car crash on the freeway coming home late one night. My life stopped at that pole, literally-I had to be revived a few times. I was Comatose over two months, paralyzed on half my body. Metal bars were put in the body to strengthen and align bones, at least one remains today. And the worst part?...the head injury.
You don't know how much your brain is responsible for untill you lose it. Memory is lost- 10 years at first, then little memories filtered in here and there in no particular order. I forgot things I should know at that age, things learned at school, and people- I was constantly greeted by people who knew my name, but I didn't know them: friends, classmates, neighbors, a girlfriend!! Yeah, it was like a bad movie where a mad scientist steals your identity and memory. All these people being nice and friendly to me that were basicly strangers. But little flashbacks would come to me like a movie being shown in my head, and over a few years, I had enough to piece together parts my past. I felt like a druggie!! I still don't remember everything, I'm missing a lot of good memories according to my friends who were there with me on the path of life. And it continues today - I might not remember what, or IF, I ate today! or people I met 3 days ago! I'm forever forgetting appointments, even though I was taught to carry a weekly calendar in my pocket, through a program for Head Injured people like myself.
The physical injuries cause great pain, but it's the Head Injury that's preventing me from a career job - "of all the things I've lost, it's my mind I miss the most". I don't know who said that, but it's perfect.
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This isn't Chuck Stone below
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My interests: Art, and reading about my brain injury
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Did he say that? Yes I did. I was in a bad car crash at 25 that broke many bones AND put me in a COMA for over Two months. Any article I see about the brain, I read in hopes of learning more about the difficulties I've been having ever since.
I've learned a lot on how the brain malfunctions, which has helped me to avoid some problems I encounter, but not all of them. I'll try to figure a way to mention them while showing pics of the Art I've done, which is NOT a comment on brain damage.
The first pic is a bad image I'll try to replace later. It's an old sailor in pen and ink that I did 1982 or 83, B.C. (before Coma of 1984). The middle one is of a friend turned into a mermaid - one of a series. The bottom one is another B.C. airbrush painting.
oops!maybe not. oh! there it is
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