Talent Jimmy McCullough

"All the artificial boundaries and constructs dissolve when you take up pen, paper, brush, tattoo machine, or etching needle and flow as a particle in the great sea of luminous eccentrics inspiring back through history and forward in time. from legendary wacko Chinese dragon painters of ancient dynasties madly waving their drunken brushes and spitting out clouds of ink, through to the inscrutable Hieronymous Bosch and other heraldic medieval and Renaissance seers, on up through the disruptions and tumult of modern art history-multifacted magicians Francis Picabia; Max Ernst and Picasso; the profound Philip Guston who finally came back to his roots; hard-ass subculture waterfront tattooers and legions of others walking an unpopular and oft-misunderstood edge course of their own vision, leaving a snail trail of transcendence, humor and strange beauty as evidence of their passing through- I thank them all" -Don Ed Hardy