Through the Doors of Perception
by Michael Cleere
Title
Through the Doors of Perception
Artist
Michael Cleere
Medium
Mixed Media - Digital Paint
Description
I believe that life is a fair mixture of truth, dreams and imagination. That's what I've used to create this digital painting that is an artistic reality. The U.S.S. Bon Homme Richard CVA-31 was an actual ship in the United States Navy. It was an Essex-class aircraft carrier Commanded by Jim Morrison's father George Stephen Morrison who held the rank of United States Navy Rear Admiral (upper half) and also Naval Aviator. Admiral Morrison was commander of the U.S. naval forces in the Gulf of Tonkin during the Gulf of Tonkin incident of August 1964. This was what actually started the Vietnam War. Just 7 months earlier Jim Morrison had his picture taken with his father on the bridge of the BonHomme Richard. By the summer of 65 Jim had graduated college and had started the Doors. In 1966 George Morrison was promoted to Rear Admiral at the age of 46. 1967 was the year the Doors became true Rock Stars and appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show. ADM Morrison remained commander of the Bon Homme Richard for the last three deployments until the ship was ordered inactivated at the end of 1970. At this time Jim was in serious trouble with the law in Dade County Florida. He was looking at 3 years hard labor on a chain gang. In a letter to the Florida Probation and Parole Commission District Office dated October 2, 1970, Morrison's father acknowledged the breakdown in family communications as the result of an argument over his assessment of his son's musical talents. He said he could not blame his son for being reluctant to initiate contact and that he was proud of him nonetheless.
Jim's father was the keynote speaker at the decommissioning ceremony for Bon Homme Richard on July 3rd, 1971 in Washington D.C. the same day Jim died in Paris, France at age 27. A few years later one of Jim's classmates from UCLA film school, Francis Ford Coppola would direct the critically acclaimed film Apocalypse Now. A movie that engulfs the viewer into a world of jungle warfare, a war that George Morrison is hugely responsible for, and laces it with Doors music, an incredible combination of truth, dreams and imagination, to me it's one of the greatest works of art I've ever experienced.
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