• May 5, 2004
  • Posted by Marc

Profile: Chris Uphues

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/>Age: 32
Hometown: Berwyn, Illinois
/>Where do you now live?: South Side- Chicago
/>Where would you most like to live?: Tokyo, Japan
/>Who was your first “hero” in life?: General Patton
/>What is your favorite thing to do on your day off from work?:
Buy Records, eat tacos,or ride my bike by the lake.
What
is your favorite color?:
clear
Who (or what) do you love?:
Pretty much everyone and everything.

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/> Who and/or what are some of your influences? 

/>stupid old comics, Graffiti, Voltron, Ultra 7, junk, Donald Trump,
Specter Man, Native American Totem Poles, Chinese Opera, toys, Persian
calligraphy, celestial maps. U.F.O’s.


/>Psychedelics.

What other artists do you most
admire?


Daniel Johnston, Jack Kirby, Barry McGee, The
Beach Boys,  Mr. ,  Henry Darger, Donovan, Osamu Tezuka, Philip Guston,  Karl
Wirsum, Herman Melville, Robert Louis Stevenson.


How
would you describe your art to someone who could not see it?


/>Friendly.

What other talent would most like to
have?
 

I would like to be able to play the
harp.


What do you fear the most?

/>When my girlfriend gives me a dutch-oven.

What
is your greatest ambition? 


To make the world a more
magical place.


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