User:Suquoro

Suquoro is the moniker of the Seattle based artist "Suquoro". He insists upon keeping his identity anonymous. Many have their ideas about who he may or may not be but at this point nothing has been substantiated. Stories have ranged from the surreal to the banal: he has been spotted wheat pasting on the street and he is a cyclops, some sort of skulking monster. Others have said that he is simply a drunken recluse living in a hovel with untreated chronic depression.

Suquoro is a construction worker by day. He works in sound art/engineering, short stories, musical projects (both live and studio), visual art, acting, wheat paste art (street art), comic illustration, and projection/film art, among other genres of the aforementioned category.

Growing up in Illinois, Suquoro had a rural upbringing. He began playing violin and snare drum at 4 years old. In 1976 he received a Sears cassette recorder for Christmas. At this point he began recording nearly everything and was rarely seen without the recording machine, much to the dismay of anyone who came within three feet of him. To this day, Suquoro has nearly all of the cassettes from this era. He frequently uses clips from those tapes in his contemporary recordings, including the latest effort, a 68 minute ambient/experimental piece, "Radish Canyon Antinovel".

In 1997, Suquoro moved in with a film student Kevin Skytta. Skytta began making super 8mm films and Suquoro was his main actor for nearly a half year. These films were in black and white and featured a troupe of independent actors, including Japanese born Daisuke Uruno and Open Circle alumnus Shannon Layden. These films, often portraying Suquoro's character as the "cosmic victim", were popular in Seattle at various super 8mm film fests. The films often featured the "cameo" of beef jerky, or the eating of, as well as touching upon Suquoro's chronic alcoholism in one form or another.