ASP 18, with Ray Troll

Ray Troll's Ichthyomuse, Art and Rock & Roll

• Formative years, early influences
• Art as Ray’s childhood superpower
• Kansas to Seattle, art scene, grad school, up to Ketchikan
• Ketchikan, art scene, native culture, studio above a fish plant
• Obsessing, drawing and painting fish; 
• First T-shirt project, “Let’s spawn”
• Growing his T-shirt empire;  “Spawn ’til you Die”;  “Humpies from Hell”
• A description of Ray’s work by Brad Matsen; book projects together
• Collaboration on Planet Ocean
• We ARE fish;  all vertebrates are descendants of fish
• “How I became a Scientific Surrealist”, keynote at the Academy of Natural Sciences
• Ray’s artistic process;  phrase or pun first?
• Sketch to finished piece;  depth and complexity; adding color
• Rock & Roll & being part of a band
• Ratfish:  300 million year old living fossils
• Deep time;  perspectives on our time now
• Fossil record tells us of enduring life