Markus

For the most part, I grew up in a small town in the mountains of southern Mexico called Coatepec... My parents were missionaries and I only went to first grade when I was a kid... (Not so long ago.) I got kicked out of school because the teachers and school administrators thought I was autistic or just maybe retarded... I lived in my own imaginary reality for much of my adolescence and only came out for others when there was something that roused my curiosity... unlike school at that time.... Most of my childhood I spent out in the jungles and forests or near streams, I spent my time exploring, catching animals or fishing. I didn't learn how to read until I was 11 years old, I learned by studying a fish dictionary so that I would know something about the fish that I loved to catch so much.... I stared at the words and sounded out the syllables until I had a coherent meaning or least I thought I had the meaning... its often joked that I still don't know how to read and that all the books that I have "read" since then are fabrication of my imagination?When I moved to the US, my family settled in south Texas and that is were I attended high school. Since I had never really formally attended school it was difficult to adjust at first€ particularly with writing, which I had never done, and girls, with which I had little exposure to. Most of my early attempts to relate and interact with these beautiful, mystical, and alluring creatures we call female, were very primal in nature,like taking of my shirt in public, flexing, and on occasion tying up the bathroom with a shower at a social gathering with the hope that when a young hot lady walks through the door she will feel an irresistible need to want to join me. These tactics only worked on rare occasion!The last several years I have been studying philosophy, anthropology, and generally some form of studio art€ My hope is to marry the two disciplines€ and someday become a sort of philosophic anthropologist. I am starting some of my field work this summer. I will be traveling throughout Central America developing this project further, Guatemala is of particular interest for me right now. €€