Cover Artist – Rick Smith, USARick Smith is a graphic designer who runs his own growing and successful desktop publishing business. Aside from his work in desktop publishing and graphic design, Rick Smith produces the layout and design of small press literary publications under its subsidiary unit, Hybrid Publications. Although he deals in the commercial arts by profession, his career as an artist is motivated towards the fine arts.
As an artist, Rick Smith deals with the Abduction Phenomena and extraterrestrial intervention and its affect on the human condition in our local and global societies. Limited Edition Prints of his work, signed and numbered, are available for sale. His most recent endeavor is the publication of his first poetry volume, Legions of Light / Armies of Darkness, inspired by and coming directly from his work as an artist. Copies are available for sale within a Limited Edition series of 100, signed and numbered.
Between his graphics business and creative endeavors in the fine arts, Rick Smith has been involved with several lucrative associations such as Eyes of Learning, Inc. (Hicksville, New York); Language of Souls Publications, Inc. (Ontario, Canada); The Islip Art Museum (East Islip, New York); The Keepers (Searsport, Maine). His artwork has also been included on television shows such as Beyond the Unexplained with Janet Russell and The Unknown Zone with Joanne Steele.
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Long Island artist Rick Smith's artwork is featured at the Hybrid Gallery web site. This online exhibition includes paintings, mixed media sculpture, and photo-etchings dealing with the controversial subject of alien abductions. Rick's art features the unique characteristic of expressing the alien abduction experience in a way that satisfies the curious and soothes the troubled souls of the abductees.
Rick�s artistic talent allows him to express the abductee experience through art in a way that manages to lessen fear of the abduction experience. His art expresses the way we feel when we are abducted. He grasps our twisted emotions of the moment and churns them together with all the ambivalence abductees experience.
Like the old saying, the best way to overcome a fear of horses is to get right back on. For abductees, perhaps the best thing is to get back on the horse, or to simply face the abduction experience through art. Rick�s art has the capacity to desensitize abductees to the trauma.
This is very critical for abductees suffering in silence. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then Rick's work says it all. His art uplifts and refreshes the spirit and speaks to our hearts and the secret thoughts we feel but dare not share with others.
Rick's prints are highly prized works for sale at very reasonable prices. Any of his art will stimulate discussion. Abductees and anyone interested in the abduction phenomena or the possibility of extraterrestrial visitors is encouraged to take a leisurely stroll through Rick�s online exhibit at http://www.ufoteacher.com/ or write to Rick at ufoteacher@mac.com.
Rick�s positive attitude towards abductions is expressed through his art. He likens himself in a very positive way to the poem, The Road Not Taken. As poet Robert Frost wrote,
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I –
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference."
All of the artwork, images, text, and code throughout these files are protected under the copyright laws of the United States. Any downloading of these files for distribution, reproduction, or display is strictly prohibited without the expressed written consent of the artist.
Review � Marilyn J. Ruben, A.A.E.R.
http://www.abduct.com/features/f02.htm
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