About the BoxBoy

Do You Have a Store Anywhere?

Been there...done that. Never ever ever
again! We are most fortunate to work out
of our comfortable home and we tell
inquisitive customers that the "BoxBoy
Art Studios" is located in lovely Mount
Vernon, Virginia. And in actuality, the
BoxBoy atelier is located in lovely Mount
Vernon, Virginia, but in our basement
utility room where I toil away for most of
the day (and sometimes night). And yes,
we work (in warm weather months) in a
decrepit old T-shirt and boxer shorts.
We're out there and we're loving it!

Oh really? Ha!! We started all this as an
experiment with a large wooden trunk which
has evolved 20 years and thousands of
boxes later into the bustling little enterprise
called BoxBoy Demented Decoupage. We
sell mostly at open air markets in the
Washington DC area on weekends, and have
a sampling of product in select area stores.
We also sell on-line through this website and
very sporadically on eBay ...look for items
for sale by "festivuspole". For even more
items, please visit my brand new Etsy.com
and Artfire.com stores. Do check these
sites out and support a semi-starving artist,
will not you pretty please?

"Oh You Know, I Could Do This!"

Is This Hard...How Do You Do This?

And finally, our absolute most favorite
question of the hour, of the day, of the
year, of the century, of the millenium is
"How do you do this?" Well, dudes and
dudettes, like we're really going to reveal
our trade secrets (and yes, we do have
our own little top-secret BoxBoy tricks
up our tattered sleeves aplenty). Ergo,
our smart, "professional" interview
answer is "Paper, Glue, Varnish" as a
smirk of satisfaction peels across our
face. And believe it or not, that seems
to satisfy the morbid curiosity of those
seeking BoxBoy knowledge. It has to,
coz' they ain't gettin' nothin' else!

Do You Do This...Are You the Artist?

"Demented Decoupage" is a most nice
little tag line, would not you agree? As if
"BoxBoy" isn't enough...and it's never
enough. You can just imagine the
gargantuan grief we get from that! We,
the artist known most affectionately (and
otherwise) in the Washington, District of
Columbia, metropolitan area as "The
BoxBoy" started all this utter insanity in
the early 1990s when we had a retail store
in the comely village of Knoxville,
Tennessee, United States of America.
So, that partly explains our muted
accent, eh?

How Long Have You Been Doing This?

Having lived in the deserts of Phoenix
and the dunes of San Diego, we
returned to our Tennessee in 1990,
then moved to our nation's capital in
1999. In a previous life we were a
newspaper journalist, but soon tired of
reporting on girls' softball games and
taking photographs of people with dead
things for our hometown weekly rag. In
the corporate world, we wrote for an
in-house newspaper for a national
major u-rent-it racket. Now, the only
man we work for is ourself!

We are a graduate of the University of
Tennessee at Knoxville ... GO VOLS!
Although our football program is in a state
of disarray thanks to a greedy Trojan
hoarse, maybe we'll make it to the bowl
game in Washington DC some time. Who
wants to play in a BCS bowl game anyways?
All is well, though. Our beloved Vols can
always come up with a way to beat SEC
football powerhouses Vanderbilt &
Kentucky as well as the University of
Memphis year in and year out. UT will
always be ensured a two-win season at the
worst..

Do You Do This Full Time,
Or Do You Work?

Why Is BoxBoy a
"Demented Decoupage"?

A question we get asked very often ...
especially when a customer picks up a
"nice" box with the Baby Jesus in the
manger -- as opposed to a kooky box of
Leonardo Da Vinci's "The Last Supper"
with Marilyn Monroe or Shirley Temple
sitting in the place of our Lord and Savior
Jesus the Christ. Now we ask, had the
customer picked up that latter box,
would the question have ever been asked
in the first place? BoxBoy, a demented
decoupage!

"Do You Have Copyright Permission?"

We don't know why some people have to
ask so many silly questions. We certainly
try not to delve into our customers' lives
(well, not too much). However, when
somebody pops the question, our
professional interview answer is "We
don't worry about it." And we don't.
Even a copyright lawyer customer in DC
told us not to worry about it. So we
don't. But, in the interest of
transparency and disclosure, to answer
the question if we have permission to
use these images, the answer is Yes. We
have OUR permission!

These very fine boxes you are drooling over are all
available for purchase on a first-come, first-served basis.
Most of the boxes measure about 3.5 x 2.25 x 2.25 inches
and cost a mere $16. Just let me know which one(s) you
want by clicking boxboypab@aol.com and I will give you
all the gory details. In the event your heart desires an item
pictured that has already sold, I will be absolutely,
positively thrilled to make a similar piece for you.
Additional information may be found on the "F inding
BoxBoy" page. Obviously, boxes on the BoxAmples and
BioBox pages are custom orders. But, if you really have to
have a box featuring the one, the only BoxBoy, well I
reckon he is for sale as well ... wouldn't be the first time!