John Wire: Wire Artist

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My cursive writing springs from my love of the smooth flow of the lines it has.

My love of cursive writing began in the first grade because of my English Teacher’s, hatred of me being a left hander. She tried to break me of being a lefty by making me do sheet after sheet of the letters until they looked perfect to her. I swore a silent vow back then, that I would do something with my cursive writing. 

The Artist JOHN WIRE was born in the early years of my sobriety on lower Main St. in a rooming house. I dumpster dived and found loads of wire and started twisting as a form of therapy. Before I joined Base Co-Op Gallery, I hung my creations up in the trees and poles in OTR and around downtown.

At the corner of 8th and Elm stands the Waldo Building that I worked on for 3 ½ years. So, it was only natural for me to spell out Raya Lebanese in SOLID COPPER and hang it 13 feet high on a Sunday morning while I was wearing my painters’ whites.

In the last year, I have hung over 85 medium flowers in trees and poles all over OTR.”