Greg Latch: I was born in Corinth, Mississippi on leap year of 1960. I really don’t remember much until I was living in Chicago going to school wanting to be a basketball player after watching a donkey basketball game. I don’t get the connection either but any who, I was with my mother getting all her teeth pulled, she was very young, when across the street I saw some kind of party for a small man. I asked my mother if we could go, so she took me. The party was for an artist named Picasso they were dedicating a sculpture of his. At that time I thought “hey, I can do that.” He was getting a lot of attention maybe an artist is better than an athlete. I had won the 6th grade art contest for my school in the 3rd grade, hey what did I know. When I look back at this I remember one thing: he looked so sad to me, bored even though he had very piercing eyes. I will always remember those eyes but at the moment I don’t remember the year, it does not matter anyway. My dad got sick and we had to move back to Missisippi. Corinth, Mississippi to be exact, that is no swimming pools unless segregated which I thought even at the time that was just wrong. I am part Native American and that’s a different race... Any who, I drew all the time, no video games back then and no art in the schools. The only art classes I had was at bible school. After I got older I drew for the church, I think mainly because no one else wanted to. It was about this time that my oldest sister Donna died on Valentines Day at age 16. We were very poor, my father only having a 10th grade education and probably a learning disability, side bar here: my father was a very loving person he tried to do the best he could and we loved him very much.

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