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Free-spirited gay artist FINALLY able to do it full time. Sometimes called "Goat" by my friends. Lighthearated. Pass for many years younger. (...and beginning to question why that's really important.) I enjoy a spiritual connection to things that's currently described as somewhat neo-pagan. I believe that sex is a celebration and not a competition. (Body Electric Grad)

I'm in love with the Southwest. In 1995, I visited Santa Fe after another local Atlanta artist said "It will change your mind about color." Well it changed more than that. Much of my subject matter has completely changed since that trip and later visits to Sedona. Even after growing up on the Florida coast, I've NEVER seen skies like those in the West. When I paint them, they're hard to exaggerate. The mix of cultures--Hispanic and Native American--and their way with colorful, spiritual artistic expression will continue to inspire me. I'm very much a city boy and not a big country-western music fan though. Or at least not until I've had two beers, and then I want to be a star. I learned that when a former partner (and now best friend) had me take two-step lessons and danced at an Atlanta C&W bar. (For those that are guessing initials in that context, like S&M, B&D, GWM, etc. it's just "Country and Western.) I have been known to twang a serious rendition of "Honky Tonk Angels" in the shower.

I still have Portugal, Greece, South Africa and Spain to paint, but most of the time the brushes demand that it be something Southwestern.

Change of subject: Brand-name status items? I don't get it. I'd rather see those Calvins on the floor.

Two of my favorite quotations:
"Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly." --G.K. Chesterton. I found myself growing tired of being angry about so much. Reading this quote changed my life (whether I believe in traditional angels or not).

"A lifetime of disco is too high a price to pay for my sexuality." --Quentin Crisp

And one of my mottoes: "There's no such thing as a bad Mexican restaurant."

Poke around my website. Enjoy the art.
michaelgoettee.com