User:Onedring101/Roger S. Parrish

Born in New York City in 1944 and was educated in local schools but did not finish high school due to extreme boredom. Joined the Army at age 17, participated in the evaluation of all the woman and children from Guantanamo Navel Base during the Cuban Missal Crisis Oct. 1962.

He worked at various jobs and enterprises but always felt like he was out of place, like he did not really belong anywhere. The only place he felt at home was as an artist. He began drawing at a very early age, about 5 or 6 and continues to this day.

His modern work has its roots in what is now called the “Hippy Area” .The “mind expanding” effect of those times lead to his investigation of Buddhism and related isims which in turn lead to a life long meditation practice. Several years after engaging seriously on a path of meditation he began to “see visions” while sitting. Reproducing those images has been his main artistic expression for over twenty years.

Being completely untrained he did not take it seriously until he discovered the concept of Visionary or Outsider Art.