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Here I am, working on the benchwork for the Northern Lights Model Railroad Club, Anchorage, Alaska.
I am a fifty-four year old, single man. I've lived for twenty years in a log cabin on five wooded acres. College graduate with sixty six credit hours of art classes and an Associate of Applied Sciences degree from the University of Alaska. I'm a certified aircraft mechanic. Viet Nam veteran of two combat tours with an honorable discharge and shellback certificate courtesy of the United States Navy. Have lived in Japan and Bolivia, each for over a year. Have a female German Shepherd/Rottie mix, "Woofer", a female Harlequin Great Dane, a beautiful Swedish Warmblood/American QuarterHorse mare, Selene and a Shetland/Mini stallion, Thunder. I totally love horses; riding, training, breeding and care, and have all the facilities such as barn, stalls, hay shed, tack room and riding arena.
Hobbies are mainly enjoying my animals, model railroading, model building, shooting, radio controlled boats, kayaking, and computing.
I have carved fifty-seven model aircraft in fossilized walrus and mastodon ivory, some of which is over one million years old. Have built hundreds of aircraft, ship, railroad, car and other models. Have built many diormas and museum displays. Currently working on an Alaskan wildlife display/diorama for the Dorothy Page Museum in Wasilla, Alaska. Many photos of these various projects and artworks will be coming to this site. Am currently working on an ivory DeHavilland Beaver on Edo floats.
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My cabin in the summertime.
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The USS Hugh Purvis, my home for over three years.
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Selene, my mare.
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The flying saucer that brought me to Earth.
I saw a child who couldn't walk, sit on a horse and laugh and talk.....I saw a child who could only crawl, mount a horse and sit up tall.....I saw a child born into strife, take up and hold the reins of life....And that same child was heard to say, thank you God for showing me the way.
John Anthony Davis
| My cabin |
| Paintings gallery |
| Drawings gallery |
| Ivory aircraft |
| Display case of models |
| Museum displays |
We need another and a wiser, perhaps more mystical, concept of animals.
Remote from universal nature and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion.
We patronize them for their incompletion, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves.
And therein we err, and greatly err.
For the animal shall not be measured by man.
In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear.
They are not brethren.
They are not underlings.
They are other nations -- caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendor and travail of the earth.
Henry Beston