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LOITERING OUTLAW

One of the best definitions that I ever read for 'Culture' was, cultivation of the soul. With the many cultures that one can choose from, Corporate Culture, Religious Culture or Political Culture, I will always choose the Art Culture because it's more of a People Culture. It's what a person can create to share and to express our lives captured in a moment of time.

In many towns across this nation they have strict ordinances that an Artist cannot set up on public streets to paint or play music, as if we were just loitering. So this is where the idea of the painting evolved.

Biography: TAWES Dennis Tawes’ Complete Bio Born in Jacksonville, Florida in 1954, Tawes was that kid in the back of the classroom who was always caught drawing and getting into trouble for it, though whenever a teacher needed an illustration for a project, they would always enlist the talents of young Tawes. After leaving high school, Tawes took a job in the art department of the Haydon Burns Library in Jacksonville, where he had the opportunity to create posters, graphics and helped to create a traveling puppet show. In the show he used his writing abilities, his talent for using different voices and, of course, the art of making puppets. By the mid 70’s, Tawes grew restless and decided to explore his talents in Hollywood,...