John W Holcomb
The Kansas plains
785.215.1671
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Born: October 1984.
Likes: Rock ‘N Roll (Squad Five-O, The Ramones, Tom Petty, etc), Americana (Dawes, Bazan, Avett Brothers, etc), NFL (Chiefs), College Hoops (Rock Chalk Jayhawk), MLB (Royals).
I’m a simple man. I live on the plains in Kansas. I tend the garden in the summer sun and drink sun tea in the shade when I get too hot. I watch movies with my wife and sports without her because she says I watch too many. We walk our dachshund around the town loop that borders open country on all sides. I love the open country.
I draw pictures to please myself and am elated when others find joy in them as well. I graduated from Topeka High School in 2003 with a desire to make special, flashy effects in Hollywood movies. That led me to John Brown University (not that John Brown but this one) in Siloam Springs, Arkansas. I hated the digital media, and it’s there were I met Joel Armstrong, the professor who changed my career life. 5 years since graduating, I’m only now starting to understand what he was trying to teach me back then. Just let go.
“Riches I heed not, nor man’s empty praise, Thou mine Inheritance, now and always. Thou and Thou only, first in my heart, High King of Heaven, my Treasure Thou art.”
My work has been seen here:
Food Network | The Smithsonian | National Geographic | ReadyMade | DailyCandy.com | Design Sponge | Travel + Tourism | DCist.com | SeriousEats.com | Fine Artichoke | + more