(27 Jul 2016) FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: apus060162

ANDREW PURCHIN HAS HIS OWN VIEW OF POLITICS .
ONE HE READILY SHARES WITH ANYONE PASSING BY.
SOUNDBITE (English) Jill Glauber, participant:
"It was great. It was just something _ a little pit stop on the way to all the commercialization and the politics. Just a nice relaxing moment."
PURCHIN RECENTLY SET UP A LITTLE STUDIO OUTSIDE THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION IN CLEVELAND.
GIVING PEOPLE A BREAK FROM THE CHAOS.
SOUNDBITE (English) painter Deanna Nechitilo: "I just kind of zoned out."
PURCHIN A PYSCHOTHERAPIST BY TRADE....
GOT INSPIRED NEARLY EIGHT YEARS AGO AT THE INAUGURATION OF BARRACK OBAMA.
SOUNDBITE (English) Andrew Purchin, artist:
"I was like well what will be my audacious act? And it's like I'm painting in public; what would happen if I went to the inauguration in the freezing cold and painted in oils at the inauguration of the first black president of the united states? And for me, it was being a creative witness to this event."
THAT INCLUDED PAINTING THE CROWD ITSELF.
HE WENT ON TO ATTEND BOTH OF THE 2012 NATIONAL CONVENTIONS...CAPTURING THE DIFFERENT CONVENTION GOERS.
SOUNDBITE (English) Andrew Purchin, Painter
"I don't have to agree with their politics yet I find the gestures of people really beautiful."
DESPITE OFFERS, PURCHIN HAS NOT SOLD ANY OF THESE PAINTINGS AND IS DECIDING WHAT TO DO WITH THEM
THIS YEAR... PURCHIN IS TRYING SOMETHING DIFFERENT....
TURNING HIS SUBJECTS INTO COLLABORATORS ON A 144 FOOT SCROLL.
SOUNDBITE (English) Andrew Purchin, Painter:
"It occurred to me that it would be that much more powerful if both all kinds of people, of all kinds of expressions would express themselves somehow on this scroll and that my role would be more of a facilitator of other people's creative expression.
PURCHIN IS NOW WORKING WITH A NEW GROUP OF CONVENTION GOERS IN PHILADELPHIA...
HOPING TO FOSTER CREATIVITY...AND CONVERSATION.
SARAH GRACE TAYLOR, ASSOCIATED PRESS


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