Porter McKnight
Nationality: US
Currently Living: Los Angeles, CA
Member Since: 3/5/2007
Like Catholics late for Sunday mass, he scrambles eagerly to the doors of Golden Apple Comics, a charming little comic store on Melrose in Los Angeles, California. The latest release fresh on the shelf, he never misses an issue. He stops for a moment to breathe in the city air. He takes it in. It feels good, no matter that it’s laced with city smog. It’s been so long since he’s been home, or at least this home he has made for himself. He’s really more of a southern boy at heart, born and raised in Southern Alabama. But for now he’s settled here, settling being something he hardly has time for. It won’t be long until he’s on the road again touring with his band, signing autographs, doing press, taking photo opportunities with fans; Just a day in the life. Surely for this he is grateful, but being a rockstar is much more of an alter ego than a true self. A Superman that rather prefers being Clark Kent. As is Porter McKnight, the man behind the musician, the writer, the photographer and the artist.
Drawing greatly from his appreciation of all art forms, Atreyu bass player McKnight is something of a creative sponge, absorbing inspiration unwittingly and most importantly without prejudice, allowing him to master a broad range of artistic crafts. Traveling extensively, he has molded a collection of brilliant photos that capture the essence of the places they were taken. Often highlighting the photos with various mediums, sometimes designed digitally and other times by hand, he has become well versed in painting, pasting, drawing, and tracing. By collecting a slew of antique memorabilia from Dresden, Germany to Los Angeles’ Fairfax flea market, he fashions collages intent on telling a story. Each bringing new life to the old, discarded but not forgotten, faces of the people in the photos or the names signed in the letters, lost treasures made into contemporary art. Porter McKnight’s work speaks for itself, with a voice that is haunting and demands our attention.
by Royale Fatale
