Josie White

White was roadie, groupie, and sometime stand-in for the ugliest man in rock and roll in the early 80s but upon awakening under some shrubbery after a show in Zagreb, White began a spiritual journey starting in the nearby Levant where a newly-formed relief organization offered free room and board in return for which White plainly jobnikked and immediately upon White's departure, a firm two-week limit to any volunteer duty was implemented that stands to this day. Continuing the spirit quest, White next crossed the Great Rann and climbed the road to Lei on a Royal Enfield with Hindu superbikers whose interpretations of the many ancient monuments in Gujarat and Nepal strongly influenced White’s philosophy and art. After trading the Enfield for a Mongolian pony, White continued journeying, finally boarding a Soviet propaganda ship for fishermen at sea and then island hopping and eventually becoming part of an ostensible crab boat crew assisting Soviet defectors off Kamchatka and into the land of freedom. After Glasnost, White commenced on a two-year sabbatical in a giant redwood adjacent to Julia Butterfly; however, a disagreement over plant-based textile weaving left three EarthFirst! members badly beaten. After expulsion from the EarthFirst! movement, White lived in one of John Waters’ guest houses with much time spent adjusting the pH in the mansion’s swimming pools and engaging in intense study, a period during which White was profoundly influenced by the classic art tome 'Why Cats Paint.' White currently enjoys her home and studio in the American Pacific Northwest, although sculpture has lately taken a back seat to raising meat rabbits and hoarding ammo in preparation for the zombie apocalypse.