[vc_row iron_row_type=”full_width” iron_remove_padding_medium=”tabletnopadding” iron_remove_padding_small=”mobilenopadding” iron_overlay_pattern=”” iron_parallax=”” iron_bg_video=””][vc_column offset=”vc_hidden-lg vc_col-md-offset-0 vc_col-sm-offset-0″][vc_empty_space height=”20px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row iron_row_type=”full_width” iron_remove_padding_medium=”tabletnopadding” iron_remove_padding_small=”mobilenopadding” iron_overlay_pattern=”” iron_parallax=”” iron_bg_video=””][vc_column offset=”vc_col-md-offset-0 vc_hidden-md vc_col-sm-offset-0 vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs”][vc_empty_space height=”150px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row iron_row_type=”full_width” iron_remove_padding_medium=”tabletnopadding” iron_remove_padding_small=”mobilenopadding” iron_overlay_pattern=”” iron_parallax=”” iron_bg_video=”” css=”.vc_custom_1617063659685{background-position: 0 0 !important;background-repeat: repeat !important;}”][vc_column el_class=”.nopadding”][vc_single_image image=”6299″ img_size=”full” css_animation=”fadeIn” img_fullwidth=”0″][vc_column_text css_animation=”fadeIn”]
Photo: ©2010 Matthew Giobbi
[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row iron_row_type=”full_width” iron_remove_padding_medium=”tabletnopadding” iron_remove_padding_small=”” iron_overlay_pattern=”” iron_parallax=”” iron_bg_video=”” css=”.vc_custom_1452106591529{padding-right: 10px !important;padding-left: 10px !important;}”][vc_column][vc_row_inner iron_bg_video=””][vc_column_inner][vc_empty_space height=”25px”][vc_custom_heading text=”FOR THE UNINITIATED -” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:18px|text_align:left|color:%23111b38|line_height:12px” google_fonts=”font_family:Secular%20One%3Aregular|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal” fit_bg_text=”0″ el_class=”.costumespacing1″ css=”.vc_custom_1617246881351{margin-bottom: -10px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}”][vc_custom_heading text=”Rarely is a musician so passionate,
a writer so full of story, a philosopher so mischievous..” font_container=”tag:h3|font_size:28px|text_align:left|color:%2325262d|line_height:34px” google_fonts=”font_family:Merriweather%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal” fit_bg_text=”0″ el_class=”.costumespacing1″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_empty_space height=”10px”][vc_row_inner equal_height=”yes” iron_bg_video=””][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1618233076859{margin-right: 5px !important;}”]Samuel Saint Thomas is a slightly ordinary musician, writer, and accidental philosopher. He makes his home in a sylvan Chinese tea house in the mountains near N.Y.C. He inherited the DNA of a jazz pianist and an Irish pub singer from a dusty coal town, who by miraculous events, both became pentecostal preachers. Growing up in a Pennsylvania steel town that hugged the Mason Dixon line, Samuel traveled with the family Gospel band, later living a monastic life for a spell before taking up the sensuous life of a culture vulture.
Since 1990, Samuel has collaborated with celebrated musicians — writing, recording, and performing his music in the Northeast. In 2000, he set off in scholarly pursuit of philosophy and creative writing. He now teaches at a suburban college and continues to draft his memoirs of a series of bizarre and humorous stories about being a preacher’s kid growing up with twisted ideas in his little head in the dim light of religion.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1618358831042{padding-bottom: 15px !important;}”]In 2012, he launched his Bovine Social Club project, a twangy folk and rock band that has gone on to play prestigious venues from Vermont to Virginia and in 2019 toured their hit show Clap Hands: The Poetry and Song of Tom Waits. To ward off his existential miseries, he enjoys peaty single Islay malts, Northwest wines, cooking with butter, and working as an artist to cover his walls with paintings of nudes, circus tents, and wildflowers. Welcome to these pages of fortunate and unfortunate adventures.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner iron_bg_video=”” css=”.vc_custom_1618034394447{padding-bottom: 30px !important;}”][vc_column_inner css=”.vc_custom_1618034319505{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”][iron_image_divider divider_align=”center” divider_padding_top=”30px” divider_padding_bottom=”50px” divider_image=”5902″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row content_placement=”bottom” css_animation=”none” iron_row_type=”full_width” iron_remove_padding_medium=”” iron_remove_padding_small=”” iron_overlay_pattern=”” iron_parallax=”parallax” iron_bg_video=”” css=”.vc_custom_1617163403099{padding-top: 165px !important;padding-bottom: 165px !important;background-image: url(https://samuelsaintthomas.com//wp-content/uploads/2021/03/rocks7.png?id=5915) !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/3″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″ css=”.vc_custom_1615436808357{padding-right: 20px !important;}”][vc_empty_space height=”400px”][vc_custom_heading text=”Placing my subject in a clearing is a way of framing out the clutter that might keep me from seeing a certain few colors, objects, tones or textures. That’s my idea of story anyway.” font_container=”tag:h3|font_size:22px|text_align:center|color:%23d6d6d6|line_height:26px” google_fonts=”font_family:Merriweather%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal” css_animation=”fadeIn” fit_bg_text=”1″ fit_bg_align=”fit_bg_center” css=”.vc_custom_1618025916883{padding-top: 40px !important;padding-right: 40px !important;padding-bottom: 40px !important;padding-left: 40px !important;}” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fsamuelsaintthomas.com%2Fframing-wiggly-stuff%2F|title:Framing%20Wiggly%20Stuff”][iron_image_divider divider_align=”center” divider_padding_top=”10px” divider_image=”5902″ divider_color=”#ccb839″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row iron_row_type=”full_width” iron_remove_padding_medium=”tabletnopadding” iron_remove_padding_small=”mobilenopadding” iron_overlay_pattern=”” iron_parallax=”” iron_bg_video=”” css=”.vc_custom_1614573615131{padding-right: 8px !important;padding-left: 8px !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text css_animation=”fadeIn” css=”.vc_custom_1618174666250{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”]
Lee Ufan, Relatum (formerly Language), 1971/2011 / Installation: Dia: Beacon, NY / Photo ©2020 Samuel Saint Thomas
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