"Dragon's Joy" ONLI Copyright 2009 Watercolor on heavy duty acid free archival paper. 22" X 30". Rhythmistic otherworldliness in watercolors. This growing collection is inspired by the Chinese and Western World Horoscope and zodiac systems. Looking for collectors, curators, and art investors.

I saw the amazing future-primitif movie AVATAR and thought.

Hmmmmmmmm. Deja vu all over again!

OK. I will say it. After all I am not in a politically correct mood these days. I was there way back in the 20th Century!!! The following sequence of images created by me in late 1977. I shopped them around in Paris and London to major publishers and filmmakers. The same in Los Angeles New York. Even Chicago. They were all very impressed but unprepared for the power, appeal, and potential of them. Science fiction, globalization, diversity, graphic novels as source material or high-art, and spiritual processing had not hit those circles yet. I did freelance illustration work with the Rolling Stones, MODE AVANT GARDE, and The Paris Metro newspaper along with winning a national drawing contest in France that resulted in a solo exhibition of my artwork at the FIAP in Paris.

I was told in Paris. by a person who was well connected, "Turtel, you are ahead of your time!" I thought, "Hmmmmm, I guess he will not be investing in any of my concepts." However I beg to differ. Time is on my side!!!

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The undeniable power of these images I created did get an influential run in the trendy magazine MODE AVANT GARDE during that period.

My Rhythmistic "Femme Chat" was featured in the "Chicago Art Review". I do own the copyright to this image and character.

Please do not reproduce any of the images on this blog for commercial purposes without my permission. Thanks.

I will find more support. My folks. My investors to be. My passionate and intelligent collectors. My precious clients. My curiously dedicated students. My insightful fans. All who will want me to continue this work. Those who are comfortable with the fact that I continue to be a prolific visual thinker looking for the right team to develop all of this. They are finding me daily.

I do have my moments. Like the internationally acclaimed COOL GLOBES traveling public art collection. My Cool Globe entitled, "Itz A Rhythmistic World" was featured in the New York Times and the International Herald. My first Rhythmistic illustration freelance job, which was an album cover, is the first one featured in the landmark coffee table styled art book called, "FREEDOM" Rhythm & Sound". This book documents the connection of the art of album cover design in jazz to the music and the musicians themselves. Some of my artworks are in the permanent collections of the Johnson Publishing Company, The DuSable Museum, and the Chicago Children's Museum.

When I look at AVATAR I see aspects similar in visual language to my vision in full effect. It affirms that I was right about those ideas and their potential value but the folks I was shopping to were not ready. I am still right. Full of ideas. Ready to roll. Why do I see their face all over that movie? See? Great minds do think alike. It comes down to who gets the breaks. The big ones. It puts me back in the hunt.

The Rhythmistic Venus image/ illustrations were done during that time. the late '70s. The truth is me and Rhythmism exists. I persist at the risk of being ahead of my time again in these times while no less being very on time.

Since you were nice enough to visit and read this I have something else to say.

RHYTHMISM LIVES!!!!!!!