Portraits of Consequence Exhibition by Simon Occulis

Vernissage: May 11 I 5pm -7pm

Canadian American poet, novelist, and visual artist, Simon Occulis was born in Los Angeles California. His teenage years were spent in a US Manhattan Project town, Richland Washington, where the military made the plutonium for the Nagasaki bomb, and his high school mascot was the mushroom cloud. After flunking out of school resulting from dyslexia, he embarked upon a long list of factotum occupations like, arctic fisherman, coffee roaster, radio jingle producer, and single parent, to name a few. It was while squatting inside an abandoned church on the Humber River in Toronto, attempting to overcome his learning-disabilities that he stumbled upon the hypnogogic artistic process that propelled him to success with poetry, a surreal experience he has described as, “the spirit possessing him.” After a best-selling collection, Tender in the Age of Fury, and two international recital tours, Pitts changed his name to…