Richy Vegas: A Psycho Memoir, Part one:  Scroll Down for Parts Two & Three
This is an online version of an exhibition that appeared at Lawndale Art Center in Houston from Dec.3rd, 1999 thru April15th, 2000. These are the first fifty-one of a series of 161 drawings. They comprise a partial literary documentation of the last time Richard was psychotic. From early January of 1995 to mid-April of that year, his medication stopped working. He was having delusions about reality. His mind kept spewing out "recovered memories" (hallucinations).

Richy Vegas: A Psycho Memoir, Part Two

Richy Vegas: A Psycho Memoir, Part Three
A Psycho Memoir, Closing Artist's Statement: In the Spring of 2008, Whilst enjoying an alcoholic beverage, I  decided that I believed in God.  The artist Tommy Lanigen-Schmit told me a few days earlier that I was a person of faith-unconventional though that faith may be.  "Close enough for Rock and Roll," I concluded as I swilled my tallboys. Incidents like the one I related here at the end of this comic seal the deal.  Sure, I think about purely irrational thoughts and hallucinations that I once experienced and rightly conclude that there's nothing to them.  But, there's enough that I experienced that kicks into a realm where I am unable to distinguish between where my madness leaves off and where things of a divine nature begin.  Why do I have to be the one that parses out what is real and what is not? I  will just depict the dilemmas I am faced with and see if, like all good art, they pass the test of time.