Author: Rivenrod

Artist | Author | TroubleShouter: Rod McRiven stands for integrity and humanity against the shameless excesses of the 21st Century. Invigorated by Realpolitik, he is shabby yet chic and carelessly un-PC whilst always being diplomatically forthright. There are three things which light my fire: Art History, because Art and Artists document certain truths about the development of the human species; how we have ended up where we are and potentially where we’re going. The written word because without the process of thinking and communicating those thoughts, our presence on this planet would be meaningless. And philosophy, because only through systematic examination of the Human Condition can we begin to explain humankind's magnificence as well as our callous inhumanity.