User:Arachiya

John Martello (tribal name AraChiya) is an traditional artist who produces a wide range of hand-made artworks from wearable art in the form of relief pins made of resin, to comics,portraits and paper models. John is the current Chief of the Order of the Skywatcher Clan (a non recognized Native American Indian tribe and 501c3 public charity) and his art services are used to raise the funds to purchase land for the tribe on which to rebuild the tribal nation (which was lost to the Spanish around 1776-1780). John's memories of how he was recruited by a Skywatcher elder, living on the Poospatuck Indian reservation in Mystic, New York, is being used in the tribe's petition of Federal acknowledgement.

Current focus is on anthropomorphic art (usually adult in nature)in the form of commissions which are considered donations with a gift of art in exchange. This appears to be the only current source of funds as the other services John provides (the pins and portraits) are apparently of no interest to anyone. He created his most famous work; DRAGON HEAT, in 2000. Admittedly rushed, with lots of mistakes, the popular, adult digest comic series has been the most pirated of his works.

Strangely enough, John is attacked constantly by thieves and pirates who do not believe he has the right to make a living from his art or that he has the right to protect his rights and work. Recently, a well to do artist copied two fetish commission paintings John made in June of 2004 to benefit himself, without requesting permission, which further harms John's ability to raise the funds to save his tribe from extinction (and people wonder why John gets so angry). Sadly, the Artist that used the work illegally will not respond to John's letters, nor will the Canadian government, justice system, attorneys, press or art galleries, do anything to enforce the international copyright laws (just as the US government and law enforcement will do nothing to punish those who violate his copyrights).

John also produces videos to document the building of models, exploring the tribe's cave, rocket launches comedy and sci-fi amateur series.John builds the props and costumes, creating the background stories of the characters which are usually based on tribal legends. John is also a scientist (as is a tribal tradition)and develops his own scientific instruments with current projects involving magnetovoltaic sem-conductors (magnetic solar cells) to generate free, clean, renewable power, an electromagnetic drive for propelling rockets, aircraft and spacecraft, and a Extremely Low Frequency magnetometer to identify and map Earth energy flow patterns as well as identifying (scientifically) tribal descendants as well as the dating petroglyphs and other rock art carvings, which are dated using associated organic matter.