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Alex Nodopaka

Alex Nodopaka
Alex Nodopaka speaks San Franciscan, Parisian, Moscowite, Kievlan and more after vodka, when suddenly he starts speaking English. He claims to have been immaculately conceived in Kiev, Ukraine and accidentally offloaded in Vladivostok, Russia. He studied tongue-in-cheek at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Casablanca, Morocco, then subscribed to eternal studentship in the US, where he has been doodling since 1959. His interests in literature and the visual arts are exhaustively multi-cultural.

Seagull Guano Chaos

By Alex Nodopaka
Photography•Vol. XXX No. 1 (Spring 2017)

In my mid teens I read Worlds in Collision, Ages in Chaos and Earth in Upheaval by Immanuel Velikovsky, and that inspired me a great deal. About the same time, in the mid-1950s, while I already was a pretty good drafting imitator of Disney characters, I laughed at Jackson Pollock’s graffiti. It reminded me of… [Read More]

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