Today is the big day; the artwork is being hung at Minas in Hampden (all 30 paintings)!  In the midst of all of the work we (Pat Moran + Associates) have been doing for casting the HBO series VEEP, I managed to put the finishing touches on what needs to be done for my art-show and the opening.  I am very excited about the opening on Saturday and I look forward to seeing everyone there!  Below I am including a description/background of this all new body of work entitled "Fragments from Utilis Planta".

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Fragments from Utilis Planta


Over a thousand years ago a book entitled Utilis Planta was written and illustrated by an unknown author.  The book was apparently discovered, by a Mellyle Asquith, in the private collection of a man who called himself Anton Vision, but there is no written record of his existence (only word of mouth).  While waiting in Anton’s library, to be seen, Mellyle looked through this book and remembered a great deal, but only a small percentage of the entirety of the text.  This book disappeared shortly after and only the one copy that Mellyle made from his memory exists.  That copy has been missing, along with Mellyle for quite some time as well.  Before he went missing, he shared this book with some friends.  This series shows some of the illustrations of the fantastic and fabled plants from that copied text and an accompanying description of each plant and its use.  These are only memories of memories of that copied text, which had been passed down verbally, so this is the first time they have been written and illustrated in hundreds of years, and only the third time they have been physically documented.  All of the plants described in this book have never been seen before and many question if they ever even existed.  For now, they shall remain categorized under Cryptobotany.