Ballinthejack: Autobiography of a Starving Artist

By Brian J. King

Ballinthejack is about becoming an artist: love and creation, rebirth, perseverance, and fated love. It is filled with magical tales of a child's adventures, the surreal events of taking the road less traveled, the challenge of the wanderer's way, mind altering drug experiences, encounters with UFOs, and being a stranger in strange lands.From Eisenhower's American Dream in the fifties through Kennedy's Age of Promise, immersion in the sea change of mind expansion during the sixties and seventies, into the Age of Information and the global pandemic, you experience the tales of adventure and the trials of a career artist.At times na ve, at others, wise, you take my artist's journey, dedicated to creating beauty and living a life of adventure. Discover the fate and courage of mystical paths during the constantly changing times from the sixties to current times of crisis. Traverse the memories and intimate details of a man whose life straddles two centuries of social change in America. This is a collection of memories and musings, true stories and poems, pieces in the puzzle of the life of an unknown artist in America, an art activist and pioneer of the Internet, social media and art.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08GLP422B
• ISBN13: 9798678826510
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"