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When I was 6 years old when the cuban missile crisis occurred. The russians were putting nuclear weapons in cuba just 90 miles off florida. JFK gave them 3 days to get the weapons out or we would attack. People were panicked in the streets. In school everyday we would do duck and cover exercises, hiding under our desks. We were told the missiles would take 8 minutes to cross the poles. We were told not to look at a blast as our eyes would melt out. I was 6 years old, It traumatized me severely and I still feel the effects today. These are the paintings I have done to exorcise the demons that still haunt me after 50 years. “Duck and Cover” Series James Melvin

“Duck and Cover ” Series

  • “Duck and Cover”
  • “Duck and Cover 2”
  • “Duck and Cover 3”
  • “Duck and Cover 4”

“Gas Mask” Series

  • “The Gas Mask Series #1”
  • “The Gas Mask Series #2/Green Beans”
  • “The Gas Mask Series #3/ for the tourists”
  • “The Gas Mask Series #4/Holocaust”
  • “The Gas Mask Seres #5”

“Red Ball” Series

  • “The Red Ball”
  • “The Red Ball 2”

“Eyeball People” Series 

  • “Fight for the Princess”
  • “Eyeball people “
  • “Monoculateum”
  • “The Taking”
  • “The failed escape of Princess Eye”

“The Bone” Series

  • “The Bone” 1
  • ” The Bone ” 2
  • ” The Bone” 3

“Political and Government” 

  • “Behold a Savior”
  • “America takes a beating”
  • “No Justice for the Poor”

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  • “Mother”
  • “Pursuant to the Angle”
  • “PTS – a disorder”
  • “Quo Vadis”
  • “We all fall down”
  • “We all fall down 2”
  • “Come out and Play”
  • “The Penitent”
  • “Untitled”
  • “Und der boot segelt weiter”
  • “School Shooters”
  • “A moment of Hysteria”
  • “Micro Monsters”
  • “Spice”
  • “Something I saw with my eyes tightly closed”
  • “Acrimony and Miss Suzy’s eye”
  • “Indemnity”
  • “The Keepers”
  • “The symmetry of Expression”
  • “Bernard doesn’t fit in”
  • “My sister a bitch”
  • “Bad Dreams”
  • “Pursuing the left”
  • “Encounter on the Forest Trail”
  • In a private collection
  • “Fugue State”
  • “State Bird”
  • “The Angel of Technology”
  • “Dead Nuns and Disturbing Clowns”
  • “Thursday evening”
  • “Psychedelic Surgery 2”
  • “Shrimp heads on Holiday”
  • “God is dead and… heaven is burning”
  • “Conflixion”
  • “Baby’s little secret”
  • “Edith gets her Birthday Wish”
  • “Amerika 14”
  • “When once we wander”
  • “Singer of Shadows”
  • “Blythe Spirit”
  • “Blue Girl”
  • “Untitled 3”
  • “From The Cell”
  • “Charlotte’s web dance remix”
  • “True Love”
  • “Can you see?”
  • “Mercy”
  • “Can you see 2”
  • SOLD “Scene from the Apocalypse”
  • “D-day”
  • “Attrition”
  • ‘Portrait of Ms. S”
  • “Mona Cat Head”
  • “The Mona Roach Head”
  • “Unfinished”
  • “Hitch hiking with Jesus”
  • “Almost Abraham”
  • “Behold the Savior”
  • “Drumming up the Spirits”
  • “Theo’s persistence”
  • “Reflections of Crucifixion”
  • “The Lightning Chaser”
  • “Video killed the Radio Star”
  • “Goodbye Suzy Q”
  • “Forgotten Gods and inter-active fish”
  • “Requiem for my Favorite Bands”
  • “A Certain Kind Of God”
  • “Peripheral Vision w/portrait of Ms. K”
  • “Hard memory”
  • “Endless Shrimp”
  • “Objects in mirror are closer than they appear 1”
  • “Objects in mirror are closer than they appear 2”
  • “Farmscape in A minor”
  • “Triumph over the Monkey”
  • “NonHoc Realest”
  • “Objects in Mirror are closer than they appear”
  • “Moon Dream”
  • “Sherri Lynn”
  • “The Venus of Canaveral”
  • “Suzy’s world”
  • “Untitled”
  • “Beach Babe 3 w/Pug Skull”
  • “Blue Roses”
  • “I am the hanged man”
  • “The persistence of Enterprise”
  • “Hats off to Roy Harper”
  • “Spoonman”
  • “The Moon”