Julian LaVerdiere the Conjurer

What is the artist's background? What does his studio look like? How does he engage his audience?
JL appears to be living the Jungian archetype of the magician or trickster. His remaking of the Faust myth further supports this as does his work with unconscious states and drive to reclaim and rewrite history.His creative process breathes life into his purpose and his constant creations. The work seems to keep itself alive and flowing. JL is not caught in the frantic scramble to "keep up" this allows him to redefine the time frame and the events,past and future. He acknowledges his predecessors and bulds on from their inventions and mishaps. I collect other peoples photos from thrift stores and yard sales because i feel that they are a personal part of history that too often is left out of mainstream. These snapshots are often of extreme personal significance to their creator. Jl encourages his viewers to discover and weave their own history.
What is his goal? Does he enjoy his process? Is he a threat to power structures?
The sunken ship in First Attempt speaks to me of the end of the water based Piscean Age and the onslaught of the forces of air in this Aquarian Age. The use of altered states of mind are also a component of this time as well as firece advances in info transfer and dissimination.JL embraces and invents technologies to suit his needs,like creating your own tools.Even though Jl has the drive to inspire thought and change he also has no attachment to a desired outcome. He honestly appears to want to inspire all people to affect growth and change in any and all directions at the same time even."The forest would be a very quiet place if only the birds with the most beautiful songs sang."
The goal of this man perhaps is to empower people so that history has many voices.I think he definately enjoys his timw devoted to art, and he most definately is a threat to those who wish to control others. as a true magician or sorceror would JL is adaptable to events and still keeps belief in healing and progress alive.