As a young artist, back in the last century in the 80s, I thought I would be a super star artist among humans. What did I know? I was a teen, living in Philadelphia, wearing black, being cool. Think jean shorts, black tights, big workboots…I had artist friends, how could I not be successful? It turns out it’s harder than it looks to be a successful artist on Earth, and it takes a certain talent that perhaps wasn’t apparent - to humans.

One night, I was painting a large canvas in the basement of the house I was living in with college friends, and I received a call on our landline rotary phone, placing an order for a family portrait. I knew that I was not a realistic painter (in so many ways), but I needed the work, so I agreed. This one time, I thought.

The next night, the family arrived, and I was very surprised, because although the family wore ‘regular clothing’, they definitely did not look human. But who was I to argue with a paid job? I put my cool earth music CD (late 80s, so Pretty Hate Machine?) in my boom box, arranged the family just so, and began to paint.

When I was done, they left, and as the painting was drying, I received a phone call afterwards that the painting would be picked up by the family the next Thursday. They came, paid in cash, and took their painting. They seemed pleased with the artwork!

Since then, my clientele has broadened, thanks to my intergalactic agent Sxool (pronounced Sc-hoool), who hails from a planet around the star Betelgeuse.

There are some big differences with an intergalactic clientele - clients are in general very polite, have interesting stories and backgrounds, and tend to be patient with appointment times, as it can be challenging to find mutually agreeable meetings, since time differs here from time around the galaxy. There are also similarities to having human clients, I would imagine, (using my imagination because I’ve never had one) like some of the clients never return to pick up their paintings, or they no longer are in a position to pay for their orders.

For years, I have been storing the uncollected paintings for my clients, putting them in my attic, packing them up and bringing them with me whenever I move, showing them at little places as an art show (think Borders circa 2003), or just giving them to friends or hanging them in my own house.

I finally talked with Sxool about offering them on a website at a discount for my Earth friends (all of you) so I can recover the cost of these unclaimed artworks. Last month, Sxool agreed that it would be fine to offer these leftover artworks to the Earth public, since Earth will soon be through its disclosure period, and so I designed this website to showcase some of the intergalactic paintings I have left over these thirty years.

Some paintings are portraits from distant travelers, some are more abstract, for those philosophical thoughts that intergalactic travellers have, and some are interpretations of galactic events that were important to the client’s home planet.

Because there is still the small chance that they may be picked up from the original client, only prints are offered. When I spoke with Sxool about this project, they let me know that because time is different for some of my clients which makes pick up difficult (and there is a time disparity clause in my contract) I have to make sure that they are still avaiable for pick up.

If you are interested, I thank you in advance for your purchase, and for helping me to recapture funds from these unclaimed paintings.