ET worked most of his life as a computer scientist. He only started sculpting and painting in 2018.
He grew up in eastern Pennsylvania and always hated the weather there even when he was a little kid. He asked his mother if there were other places where it was not so dark and gloomy all winter. She said that in California the sun shines all the time. He said, “I am going there!” And that is what he did.
For thirty years from the age of 21 to 52 he lived in San Francisco, the most beautiful city in the world, at the most perfect time in human history, during the prime of his life. He surfed and did pottery and studied mathematics and played duplicate bridge and met lots of wonderful gay men and worked as a computer programmer doing physics on large scale computers–a job he loved. Finally, California had changed so much and had gotten so expensive that he moved to Charlotte North Carolina—and then left the country entirely, relocating to Spain in 2022.
Until the epidemic struck he spent most of his time in Charlotte as a hospice volunteer, playing tournament bridge (he became a life master three years ago) and making art. Much of his work is informed by physics, astronomy and mathematics. He is also inspired by the author Kurt Vonnegut and has made a number of works referring to his works.
Latta Park in Charlotte (photo by ET)
ET is a gay man, and if you want to learn a little more about that, see this short video about him made in 2014.
