JOE
AVERAGE
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Our beloved Joe passed away
24 December 2024.
This site is still active and the e-commerce shop is maintained by Joe’s sister Karin. Feel free to browse and learn more about Joe!
About Joe Average C.M. O.B.C. M.G.C. R.C.A. C.C.A.
Art heals.
At the age of thirty I was three years into an HIV+ diagnosis and my heath was starting to decline. My doctor suggested that I get my affairs in order. At that time I was living on unemployment insurance. I thought if I only have six months left to live I do not want to spend it in an unemployment insurance line. I needed a reason to want to live.
Art was the only thing that I was ever good at. I did not want to be on my deathbed wondering if I could have succeeded as an artist, or, wake up at 40 questioning the same but how could I make a living from my art?
I had never considered it as a career. All I had to work with was elementary school blackboard chalk and a few sticks of charcoal and cheap paper but I made it work.
“I am now 67 years old and I am still living off my art. There have been successes and failures along the way but nothing beats the feeling of knowing that the food you are eating and the roof over your head were earned because of my imagination.”
JOE AVERAGE
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FEATURED PRINT
BE KIND TO ONE ANOTHER
For about 3.5 years of the Covid pandemic, I took part in the 7 o’clock evening cheer nightly for the nurses. I stood on my deck in the West End and filmed all the three minutes of the symphony of applause, musical instruments, pots, pans and cheers! After about a year, it seemed to die down, which I didn’t think was great so, I just kept on doing it. I pointed my camera out to the West End and clapped for three minutes and at the very end of each session I said, be kind to one another. That eventually became a header on my Facebook page.
Printed on acid free, 100% cotton rag fine art paper with archival pigment ink. Unsigned.
5″ x 7″
$100
