Taos Welcomes You to the
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A Black Widow Spider high in the corner, and then to feel a critter crawling across your derriere, but not reaching down for fear of being bitten. This is how John Hunt grew up, with an outhouse, seventeen miles north of Reno, Nevada, the last place on the power line. "Outhouses, yes, I have acquired the last possibilities of culture in that direction." "Now here we are in Taos. I once went to jail trying to get here. Four months in Taos will restore an Egyptian mummy to his pristine vigor, except for the oldest and driest mummies of course. Taos has about 50 art galleries and Santa Fe has a staggering 230. With all this artistic flow I have become stark mad with inspiration, smothered under mountains of prospective fame, arrogantly compassionate toward the plodding millions who haven't viewed my paintings. The artistic nourishment I derive from certain other local artists is downright voyeuristic. I'm learning to pilfer from them without being too obvious, and I'm totally remorseless about my thefts and feel things are exactly as they should be. However, I do miss the profanity and whisky guzzling of Virginia City." To view more original paintings by John Hunt, click
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