"Jimmy" :The Naive Art of James Thomas

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This is Jimmy's story. He was on the navy ship Saratoga in WWII when it was destroyed by 5 Japanese kamikaze strikes. After countless operations, Jimmy survived to become a gifted and established artist. In 1960 he moved to a remote village in Mexico overlooking Lake Patzcuraro, where he further refined his craft as a painter of naive art. I began documenting Jimmy's work in 1988, and this piece was edited in 1990. In those days all my video work was shot and edited in regular VHS. Even with ...