Narrating Friendship: The reciprocal relationship between J.B. Childers and myself

For the past ten months I have explored the life of a deceased artist named Joseph Barley J.B. Childers. In the graduate catalog Gregory Volk summarizes Childers as, an alienated Korean War Veteran, who took up painting as a refuge from his troubles, and who also doesn\u27t exist. Childers who is naturally right-handed, painted everything left-handed because of a war wound, and so Engelmann, who is left-handed, painted with his right hand, which is quite a limitation. Of course, there\u27s more to the story than that and the writings that follow will explain many of my reasons for pursuing this project