Mississippi State, Mississippi
Getting to know Bob
1. What is your most prized possession?
My vintage 80s members-only jacket pulled from my apartment fire
2. What are you most thankful for?
Coffee. Coffee. Coffee.
3. What is your guilty pleasure?
Investigating abandoned buildings
4. What is one story you love to tell, but rarely get the chance?
Too long to tell the saga here, but it’s “the time I was stopped in Hot Coffee, MS because the police officer thought I ran over a lady’s cat.”
5. If you could choose a new name, which one would it be?
Smith, Jones, anything but Brzuszek
6. What was the scariest moment in your life so far?
The night I saw the ghost in the shed by the Little Tchefuncte River.
7. What inspires you?
People who stare at my art
8. What is one fact that few people know about you?
I really like collecting rocks and fossils.
1830 Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek
2017 - 24”x30” - Acrylic - $800
"The 1830 Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek ceded 11 million acres of Choctaw Indian land in Mississippi in exchange for land in Oklahoma. During their removal thousands of Choctaws perished on the 500 mile journey west. But that’s not all that perished, as this cultural paradigm shift also caused extinctions of many animal and plant species from the land, including the gray wolf, the passenger pigeon and Certain clematis species."
The Hunter Within
2022 - 6’x3’x2’ - Mixed media - $1200
"The Hunter Within began with a short story by anthropologist-shaman Loren Eiseley, called The Green Lion. In the story Eiseley wrote that in the quick of an eye, primitive man still exists within us. Both genetically and temperamentally, I believe we hominids are just a century advanced of using outdoor toilets. More importantly, humans share over 80% of their DNA with cats and mice. This colorful mixed media mannequin celebrates our shapeshifting selves with quotes from time-space writers including Thich Nhat Hanh, Herrmann Hesse, and Rainer Maria Rilke; all who eloquently express our inseparable connections to our little planet we call home."
Credits:
All images are provided by the artist.