Ralph Ivy
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Drawing & Writing |
| Location | Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States |
| Introduction | I was born 1938 and grew up in Mountain View, a small town county seat in the heart of the Arkansas Ozarks. My childhood was a mixture of Tom Sawyer adventures and a growing awareness that something called World War II was taking away our uncles and fathers. We dealt with it by reading comics and some of us drawing our own hero stories of a war far away in some strange land. The war shaped many of our emotional lives then and in the years to come. At age 17, wanting to emulate our veterans, I too joined the army. (Fortunately we were not then engaged in active war.) I served 3 years, all but 6 months in Germany. The experience shaped my young coming-to-manhood. Getting to make repeated week-long trips to Paris, and taking a two-week tour of Italy (Rome, Naples, Isle of Capri, and Venus), I realized my aim was not to be a soldier, but to be an artist. I returned to the U.S. in January, 1959, joined my parents who had moved to Pasadena, California, became the first in my family to attend college, and started my life-long inquiry into art. The journey continues today. |
| Interests | Drawing,Writing,Journals,Reading,Wondering,Imagining |
| Favorite movies | Topkapi,Pulp Fiction, Run Lola Run, Desert Hearts, The Wild Bunch, Carnival of Souls, Shane, Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, The Year of Living Dangerous, Fargo, Blood Simple... |
| Favorite music | cabaret, piano bar, light jazz, blues...sounds I pretend are word-notes and use to make my own songs...(for shower singing and walking alone and stuff). |
| Favorite books | From Here to Eternity, The Day of the Locust, American Splendor, Desolation Angels, Sometimes a Great Notion, The Stand, The Halls of Ivy, Advertisements for Myself, Treasure Island, Some Came Running, In Cold Blood, Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn... |
You're trapped in a well with a goat and a slinky. Describe how you will escape.
I'd use the slinky to get the goat's goat; it would clamor upward and outward in disgust and I would throw down the slinky, grab its tail, and follow it out.O