Alaska Story Project
Conversations with authors, scientists, artists, fisher-poets, and a colorful cast of characters who are both knowledgeable and passionate about Alaska.
Alaska Story Project
ASP 18, with Ray Troll
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Host Dan Kowalski
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Season 3
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Episode 18
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