Struggling In Place: The Art of David Griffith

By David Griffith

I paint what I see in the world around me, which seems to be a never-ending comedy of the struggle for survival.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Feb 24, 2024
• ISBN: 9781304591647

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Struggling in Place: The Art of David Griffith

Edition Copyright © 2024 David Griffith

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ISBN: 978-1-304-59164-7

Struggling in Place: The Art of David Griffith

I started out a little recklessly, drinking beer and smoking cigarettes or marijuana from when I was 13. When I was 15 I started shooting hard drugs. I used to hitchhike around town, not going anywhere in particular. Sometimes I’d end up at parties. There used to be Goodwill drop-off boxes around town. You could crawl into them and sleep on the used clothes. I used to love waking up and not knowing where I was. I suffered from sometimes debilitating anxiety throughout my life. I always drank a lot of beer to self-medicate for it. I was a floor-layer for 30 years, a nurse for 15 years, and now I’m an artist. I’ve lived in nice suburbs, inner cities, apartment complexes, a mechanic garage, a sail boat, and a truck. I paint what I see in the world around me. I’m trying to promote a more progressive social agenda through art work, in a world that is consumed with greed and arrogance.

Galleries

Gallery 1: Homies

Bottom of the Heap

The working class has always been considered the bottom of the social heap. While working as a carpet-layer in Houston, I used to live with several other people in the back of a mechanic garage on the west side. We used to play guitars at night, and there was always lots of beer drinking. Sometimes the people who worked in a fancy restaurant with a loading dock across the street would bring us a big box of seafood that was left over from the nightly buffet. Most of our neighbors lived in mini-warehouses down the street, and we called our area the bottom, because there was nowhere but up from there. One time