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Study of the Muse

The Study of the Muse follows the creative trail backward and forward through poems, paintings, music, photographs, experiments, failures, jokes, obsessions and strange little moments that became part of The Poet Mr Fab.

This is not a retrospective arranged neatly after the fact. It is an excavation of influence: where the Muse appeared, disappeared, changed costumes and occasionally kicked the door down.

David is the prism. Mr. Fab is the brightest refraction.


THE ARCHIVE IS ALIVE

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01

MEMOIRS OF THE CREATIVE YEARS

The years as they happened: paintings, poems, photographs, experiments, failures, discoveries, and the people who changed the direction of the work.

2013 → present

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02

POETRY & COMPANION WORKS

Words beside pigment. Poems written with paintings, photographs, moments, and visual experiments that became inseparable from them.

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03

THE MUSE APPEARS

Music. People. Faith. Accidents. Obsessions. Humor. Strange encounters. The things that entered the work before anyone knew they mattered.

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04 · LIVE

THE LIVING ARCHIVE

The Study continues in real time.

New pieces, recovered fragments, old photographs, process, memories, experiments, and whatever the Muse drags through the door next.

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MEMOIRS BY YEAR

The archive grows by year, but never in a straight line.

2013

2014

2017

2018

2019

2024

2026

and still becoming…

FROM THE ARCHIVE

Imagined Reality, a Pop Skullture portrait by David Cruey.

FEATURED FRAGMENT

2019: Imagined Reality

A painting and companion poem about perception, fantasy, reflection, and the doors of inception. One recovered fragment inside the larger Study.

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The work keeps acquiring a story.

Nothing here is finished simply because it happened in the past. The archive changes as memory, meaning, and the Muse return to it.

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