As a young artist, back in the last century in the 80s, I thought how nice it would be to be a working artist among humans. What did I know? I was a teen, living in Philadelphia, wearing black, being cool. But… it turns out it’s harder than it looks to be a successful artist on Earth, and it takes an appeal that perhaps I didn’t have, or that 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, 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 earth clothing, they definitely did not look human. But who was I to argue with a paid job? I put my cool earth music CD 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 American dollars, 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 - and although clients are in general very polite, have interesting stories and backgrounds, and tend to be patient with appointment times, it can be very challenging to find mutually agreeable times to meet because spacetime differs here from spacetime around the galaxy. It can also be quite challenging with the atmosphere, and I make special accommodations wherever I can. However, there are also similarities to having human clients, like some of the clients never return to pick up their paintings, or customers are no longer are in a position to pay for their orders.

For years, I have been storing these uncollected paintings, 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, 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) to recover the cost of these unclaimed artworks. In January of 2024, Sxool finally agreed that it would be a fine idea to offer these leftover artworks to people, since Earth will soon be past its disclosure period. I have since designed this website to showcase some of the intergalactic paintings I have accumulated 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 to be picked up by the original customer.

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