Alec Guinness starred in a superb film "The Horses Mouth" which as an artist I identified strongly with but hearing about Jim's "visit" brought on his telephone call to John Gambling Show asking to speak to the mayor now I think of Jim Power as well or even more so. Jim gets zero funding and we all are angry about the funding for a waterfall phony bogus structure posing as art and Jim would be grateful with a small percentage of that funding along with many NYC artists. His art is a major tourist attraction and tells the story of NYC, America, Rock and Roll and honors local small businesses characters like myself, the NYPD, the FDNY and our rescue workers that died 9-11 just to cover a few of his topics.So sad to that Mayor Bloomberg can't give Jim Mosaic Man a minute of his time since Jim has included a tribute on his light poles along with other mayors, Presidents like Honest Abe Lincoln but no, anything but. Jim is a Viet Nam Vet and the most prolific East Village Artist under the most dire circumstances mostly homeless where he has been robbed, even beaten up and he needs a hip replacement and is missing the majority of his teeth and his legally blind.
http://web.me.com/suzannahbtroy/suzannahbtroy/About_Me.html
Jim is a subject of a documentary that is being made that will show for 20 years he has engaged the most diverse group of people including I have seen first hand a severely handicapped young girl - who Jim got to use her foot via the electric wheel chair to push a piece of mosaic in to the light pole. I have photos and you can see them on my myspace page.
To read more and see some footage of the film maker's go to my web page on apple
http://web.me.com/suzannahbtroy/suzannahbtroy/About_Me.html
