"I keep Him 1st." Carroll is only a man (♂).
💎💎💎💎 NOVEL ART. "I hope my art brings comfort and joy to your heart and inspires you." 💎💎 Carroll is robustly observant, intuitive, empathic, and relevant. Art collecting is a privilege of the world's richest and often it is owned by family foundations. 💎 (At the Top) A GOLD STAR MOM cries at her child's funeral on Memorial Day. She slowly speaks few words, connects well with everyone with emotional depth, and sees at a wiser level than others. Carroll observed his family's gut reaction to his older sister's death on her sixth birthday. Death (Caused by War, Acts of War, Natural disasters, Pollution, Habitat destruction, and Heart, Cancer, Stroke, Lower respiratory disease, Diabetes, Alzheimer's, Dementia, Infectious diseases, ...) and PTSD directed the artist's life for decades. "Success rarely comes in a straight line in life as in art, so, you connect the dots between the lines and clever fishermen throw a tight loop under an overhang." (Above) THE FORWARD-THINKER, 11"x15."
ADD IT TO YOUR HIRST & KOONS ◆ ◆ ◆ Carroll's Quantumisms ◆ ◆ ◆ Arte! कला! 美術！Kunst, über die es sich zu reden lohnt! 미술!
Dr. Lazar chimed, "SIMPLY INSPIRATIONAL"
over lunch in his office, 1996(?), after Carroll attended Four-star Westmoreland's black tie (Distinguished Eagle Scout, the USMA Pershing Sword, Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army) with 40 Medal of Honors in the First-Class Dining Room on RMS Queen Mary. The Artist Carroll sat with SPC4 John Baca, Medal of Honor. Carroll befriended two Knight Commanders of the Knights of Malta who were there; Both reported directly to the Pope in Rome. Kitsy had her New York lawyer son, Kip, take a photo of her with Carroll and a Vietnamese general. "An oil company president, took me after Westmoreland's Aide de Camp, Col. Roger Donlon, MOH, made arrangements."
- Lazar is the world's dean of brain surgeons, MEDISEND/International founder, president, George Washington Honor Medal, and received The Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, ... It's no wonder local artists won't acknowledge Carroll in their local art community and clubs! "I used to care and wondered if I was really an authentic artist, and foolishly listened to crazy critics. I could give a good damn what they think. OK. Just Fact Check me."
Carroll's a humble guy who thinks punctuation
is just a graphics tool --- and AI is also a tool.
"Billionaire Damien Hirst (England)
and $500MM net worth Jeff Koons,
a Pennsylvanian in New York City, NY.
are the world's richest "artists."
Reportedly, their 100s of employees make the stuff and they sign it as their own handiwork!
Each is a superb carnival barker.
"Get a rope." Call Clarice Tinsley! Call Fox 4.
Call Elon Musk. Call Donald J. Trump!
"I'd rather own a Silly Putty blue egg -
I make 'n sign my own artwork.
Bombs away.
I faced my pain and that made the
difference. My dad was a monster who I
feared up until I forgave him. Only then,
I loved him --- and met myself.
Now, I am free to be a real artist."
"Virtus tentamine gaudet"
"Strength rejoices in the challenge."
- Motto, Hillsdale College, Michigan
✔✔✔ TELL YOUR CONNECTIONS, ✔✔✔
SPREAD WORD OF YOUR DISCOVERY,
LEVERAGE YOUR ALGORITHMS.
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"I was too short to play basketball and too small for football, so I became an artist -
It was that or be a BA Marine. Oorah!
I'm a provider, manly protector, valuing
real relationships, and I am a maverick.
I have a tribe, a purpose, and faith.
I enjoy mental models and second order downstream thinking without bias.
And, what of tulip mania effects impacting small American rural towns? Heads up -
I like brains and informed decisions.
A Texas lady has 40 to 45 of my paintings,
setting a breakable national record.
You love my artwork, or prefer Koons."
Watercolor, like peace, is a romance language,
but you must think differently, not phonetically.
Watercolor IS playing polo in a CA earthquake,
to erroneously phrase 'Rocky' Stallone, our
new Special Ambassador to Hollywood,
from Manhattan in The Big Apple.
University of Miami graduate.
RADICAL TRANSPARENCY
#️⃣ Carroll was coloring Christmas cards with a magnificent set of Crayola crayons as a 4½ y/o, after his older sister died tragically at age six and he couldn't find words to express grief, mourn, or allay survivor guilt.
"Helen died from encephalitis when her brain turned into mush immediately after my doctor mom gave her a common medication. She was put on life support for two weeks. Helen was
my leader, #1 support, my BFF, my big sis, ... At age 43 painting began as PAINting for me. I survived in a pain level of 7 and didn't smile or cry for many years. I was reclusive, fearful, angry, and tired of running from the Truth. I knew better but, continued to blame myself. It was a BIG life-altering deal. I laughed at the drop of a pin, a psychologist declared,
'You are a miracle.' I was so ecstatic.
You'd have guessed I was pregnant!!!
That's when I knew I'm an artist."
"The mind is not a vessel to be filled,
but a fire to be kindled."
- Plutarch Πλούταρχος
CURRICULA VITAE:
1️⃣ Carroll was an Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (ANSP - The oldest in the Western Hemisphere) Junior Curator at 5½ y/o, where he later served as a freshwater environmental scientist and Principal Investigator in Limnology & Ecology.
He had "clearance" at Savannah Nuclear Power research site (350 sq miles of closed airspace), and Georgia Power's Nuclear Plant Hatch. His boss co-authored the Environmental Protection Agency's first regs with Ruth Patrick, PhD and the president of the United States of America.
ANSP was the first job of debutantes of East Coast Old Money and prestigious schools.
Carroll grew up in a very small resort village
10 miles west of Valley Forge, N.P.,
where General George Washington had his Colonial Army hospital in Chester Springs, PA.
One of Carroll's ancestors enlisted with Washington. Carroll was raised in Mayflower (1620, Plymouth, Mass.) and Old Money circles.
He needed more.
2️⃣ "I grew up in elite-level competitive sports, esp. running and track bike racing.
I grew up around world class gold medal champion horsemen. My doctor dad was
an avid tennis buff. Dad was a front page running back and 440 guy on a scoria track.
People came from around the world to be treated by him, study under him, or work for him. This was normal. It never occurred to me people lived differently. Money and prestige were not our consideration. 24/7, we worked passionately around the clock. Ninety-hour weeks, minimum, plus our farm and sports.
I admire surefooted warriors not wimps.
I stay far away from losers and gripers."
Naturally, Carroll was born an artist,
despite his doctor parents wanting a scientist.
"I tried but, cognitive dissonance prevailed.
A high IQ metric is seriously overrated."
He dropped out of a southern UGA Master's (Aquatic Entomology), a northern UDEL PhD (Ecology), and two Texas MBA programs --- Where he had the top grades in grad Calculus, Accounting and Marketing; He is certified and proven in Communication, Leadership, Sales and Marketing. 'I'm an adventurous 110%er.'
He was a speedy banked track bike racer (1975: As a Cat 3 cyclist qualified as PA State Alternate to US Nationals (RHR 28, VO2 Max 75), then, distance runner, 1981-83, with a 4:08, 8:56, 31:57, and 1:17:15 on 70 sub-six miles each and every week for more than 20 years. His passion was galvanized by endorphins.
3️⃣ Carroll is a strategist and mysteriously intuitive, chivalrous showman, and rainmaker, w/o a slow speed or 'off' switch. He is like a confident, stealthily stalking tiger. 孫子
"I'd had extensive 1-on-1 sales training and mentoring with the best in the U.S.A. My forte:
Birddogging, referral generation, client building, client retention, ... graphic design and writing."
He was head, chef, and bottle washer of a Dallas boutique marketing firm for 10 years.
His work connected spiritually, mentally --- consciously --- A referral from America's top boardroom consultant said, "[She] sent me. That can only mean one thing. You must be [super, super] good. Other client examples: A civilian two-star in charge of 30,000 civilian scientists at Andrews AFB, a sales and marketing VP for an oil and gas giant, ... "My Philadelphia clients had all been Big Eight accountants, PNB, Mellon, etc. bankers, law partners, entrepreneurs, and doctors. I was recruited at the Athenaeum by a general agent and former #1 salesman nationwide with a Midwestern blue-chip company.
I learned to sell on a napkin."
"I was surprised by a note from President George H. W. Bush applauding my community service in DFW ---
"Then, at 4AM one morning, I stood alone in my marketing office and spoke into the empty room, 'Please reveal my gifts to me and help me use them.' I didn't know anyone was listening. Six months later I was painting on the far side of 'The Pond' in Spain. I recalled Julius Caesar invaded England in 55 BC? I sold my marketing business overnight when I returned stateside.
PAINting suffused my life."
"The man on top of the mountain didn't fall there." - Vince Lombardi
"People want to believe that something is the biggest and the greatest and the most spectacular. I call it truthful hyperbole. It's an innocent form of exaggeration, and a very effective form of promotion."
- Donald J. Trump, 45th and 47th President of the United States. Author, The Art of the Deal.
4️⃣ 5️⃣ 6️⃣ 7️⃣ Watercolor is like being fluent in Latin and a 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th language -
It teaches you to think out-of-the-box and probably wards off dementia while improving your brain's cognitive function as does multilingualism. Very few artists ever master
works of art on paper, e.g., Audubon, Vincent van Gogh, Picasso, Winslow Homer, Hopper, ...
Hokusai 葛飾 北斎 was the best -
The Great Wave off Kanagawa.
神奈川沖浪裏
"I hid in historic 'Unique by Nature,' McKinney, TX and avoided its thriving arts community, where I made 12 of watercolors --- 16 others were on display at Christ Fellowship for 2 yrs.
(Four were portraits of McKinney residents modeling for Book of Luke sermons. The megachurch's senior pastor had The Dallas Morning News come interview me. Twelve were featured in a 400,000-member Chicago nonprofit's custom 'loyalty' calendar with 75,000 selectively mailed gratis worldwide.)
A painting was at Plano City Hall, put there by the Fire Chief, Bill Peterson after 9/11.
Even Ross Perot, Sr. phoned me one morning to coach and assist me - Heck, I'd been a bartender after dropping out of a PhD program."
Carroll is a creative storyteller, and Watercolors are his finest wordsmithing --- always from personal firsthand experience, playful, symbolic, poetical, and athletic.
He is a risk-all taking entrepreneur.
Several paintings got hundreds of thousands
of views with one exceeding 10 million,
twelve were featured in a 12-month calendar, others as regional magazine cover art.
He gave 500+ art keynotes, e.g., AAUW at SMU, University of Chicago-Dallas Chapter alumni, Brinker International, Trammel Crow corporate attorneys and accountants, ... in 9 months.
"I was surprised by the kind letter from His Majesty Juan Carlos I The King of Spain -
I kept it!"
"My favorite color is Ferrari RED symbolizing speed, passion, and well, game-changing, Masterful technique. Dopotutto (After all),
it has a high-pitched Vvvrrrrrooooooo!
2nd is forest green symbolizing rejuvenation, prosperity, growth, forest bathing, very high moral standards, and strength in adversity.
森林浴
3rd is "Valorous" blue in a variety of shades,
symbolizing authority, power, sophistication, classiness (Status), stability, trustworthiness,
longevity, and Debrett'sian eminence.
I use a lot of Winsor & Newton's
heavenly purple (violet 23).
"I was alone inside my mind.
Pictures helped me to understand myself."
Vincent van Gogh Visits the Musée d'Orsay with Doctor Who (Youtube, 2010, Vincent van Gogh Visits the Musée d'Orsay with Doctor Who). Vincent van Gogh's estimated IQ 165.
Could AI have made van Goghs, Picassos (IQ 175), Leonardo da Vincis Mona Lisa, Salvator Mundi, or The Last Supper, ...? NO.
NOR can they be copied.
8️⃣ Carroll's PURPOSEFULNESS, POSITIVITY,
PASSION & PROACTIVITY.
"I was disinherited by my natural family.
They caused me to discover the joy
of learning, positivity, and aesthetics in
today's thirsty, needy, world of chaos.
Mom didn't want anyone to know about my hellish life. She kept secrets. I kept quiet.
Yet, I couldn't've gotten here w/o them
and the suffering I endured.
"I'm an out-of-the-box thinker-doer who a lot of top people stuck their necks out for.
"One of my art mentors did the largest player contract the NFL had ever seen. He handled a lot of household name superstars.
"One of my small paintings is with two Picassos and Chagall on a ranch in Texas. Oil and gas has been good to me. My watercolors elevate and enrich your status everywhere."
"It was a Brazilian heiress, granddaughter of the co-founder of Clube de Regatas do Flamengo who arranged my study with Alcaraz - Many gifted people helped me along the way. I couldn't see what they saw in me."
POWERFUL MEN & WOMEN AIDED ME.
Secretaries and ADCs got it done -
Just a word, just one phone call!
"Thank You!" "شكرًا لك!" "Merci!" "Danke schön!" “謝謝你！” "Cảm ơn!"
"감사합니다!" "¡Gracias!" "Obrigado!"
A Major General, USMA, and MIT graduate mentored me and wanted me to be on Good Morning Texas chatting with his bride so everyone would know about me and my artwork. Another introduced me to the President of the United States.
A Texas multibillionaire called me and coached me. The president of a global brick and mortar retailer coached me and had the corporate sales and marketing VP meet me with an offer. I love being 'just an artist!' I'm no threat to anyone.
Best of all, I'm unregulated. I zoom zoom like a hummingbird!"
"Four-star Tommy Franks, USA (Ret.) penned the foreword
to my first book, Ode to Joy. inspired by Beethoven's Ninth.
Four-star General Franks sat on the Board of Trustees of
the National Park Foundation with David Rockefeller.
GEN Franks commanded a 25-country region (AOR).
We were introduced by a CGMA-winning country Hall of Fame
Nashville guitarist-singer-songwriter-producer."
Carroll's First Edition, Ode to Joy, shared the shelf beside autobiographies by President George W. Bush, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Four-star General Tommy Franks, and General Colin Powell in General Franks' Leadership Institute Museum and Gift Shop where Carroll's painting, "He First Served as a Private."
The ★★★★ explained, "I just want to help."
Ms. Kathy Dugas, 7th-Grade Art, General Wayne JHS, GVSD.
"A gifted JHS teacher, she taught me perspective, to draw hands,
fingers, and to decorate interiors with pleasing sophistication.
She showed me Albrecht Dürer's Young Hare, Praying Hands, and Large Piece of Turf. She set the bar very high --- Outstanding! She pushed me to do better.
Women always look at my fingers and wonder. I have good hands.
A Marine Brigadier General (Ret.), my 11th-Grade Art Appreciation teacher, also at GVSD, first urged me to go to Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia after high school. Man o' man. It was too expressive. I became a freshwater scientist at ANSP in Philly, because it was quietly safer. Later, I switched to a painter and poet. It stuck.
My Little League baseball buddy went to M.I.T. at 10 y/o. Physics.
The other to Harvard also at 10 y/o. Math!
"A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns.
If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because
they are made with ideas."
- Cambridge mathematician G.H. Hardy FRS
The brilliant prodigy Alcaraz taught me to see and render the beauty I saw
in landscapes, botanicals, and more. Every iconic artist first learned the time-honored tradition of drawing, later, explored and inadvertently set fashionable household trends known to all. It's a jump few will ever make, yet all are inspired.
BUT, 99.999% of people tremble seeing their own common shadow.
I cleaned my brush in a stem of red wine, swatted with my toothbrush,
raked my Holy Land calendar series with gritty sandpaper, ...
I do it my way, leading and following as I go.
🎖️ Carroll supped with 40 Medal of Honors at Westmoreland's 50th wedding anniversary. An oil company president got Carroll there aided by Sir Edward Artis, Knight Commander of the Knights of Malta, who invited Carroll to join Sir Ed's inner circle of former presidents of U.S.A., Europe, and South America --- Kitsy's son, a big shot NYC lawyer, shot a picture of his mom with Carroll on the Queen Mary in Long Beach, California. To continue, at General Westmoreland's black-tie Carroll was seated with SPC4 John Baca, Medal of Honor.
Listen to this 1st Cavalry Division interview:
MOH Baca | 1st Cavalry Division Association (1cda.org)
Col Roger Donlon, GEN Westmoreland's ADC, the first Medal of Honor
in the Vietnam War, sent Carroll the Four-star general's invitation.
En homenaje a Sr. Alcaraz (An orphan): 30 originals to The Adoption Exchange-NM. The artist Carroll's interview by CBS Evening News ran two weeks with the highest response in the Adoption's history. United Artist Theaters ran the images on the big screen before all movies in CO and NM for 30 days.
"I wanted to help people honor and remember those gallant
intrepid patriots. Theirs are incredible stories of selfless valor
that benefitted us and we save for all future generations."
"Captain Chris Cassidy USN Ret., former chief astronaut of NASA's space shuttle, Navy SEAL, and the current President and CEO of the National Medal of Honor Museum Foundation in Arlington, TX, accepted one of my prized paintings in a gold-leafed, hand-carved frame (As Alcaraz' made frames for European kings, queens, and to hold masterpieces in the greatest art museums, e.g., Le Louvre in Paris and El Prado in Madrid - Chris graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy and M.I.T. My donation honors America's priceless heroes. Alcaraz carved two for my 'Spain' pinturas. I'm here because of UDT-14 (SEALs)."
Carroll donated his artworks in memory of his deceased sibling
through Texas hospital volunteers to their hospitalized patients:
Parkland, Baylor, Children's Dallas, Cook Children's Fort Worth, Scottish Rite, ...
Dallas Theological Seminary, Prince of Peace Lutheran Church,
Dallas Baptist University, Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Red River and Gulf Coast Chapters, Four-star Leadership, Plano International Preschool,
The Adoption Exchange, Minuteman Disaster Response, ManeGait,
etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.
FAMILY HISTORY
The Burgoons are the Burguns from Burgundy, France, and were until our cordwainer patriarch, Jean Jacques Burgun, anglicized our family name (in 1740) while aboard the Palatinate tall ship Lydia sailing to Baltimore, MD in the Colonies. (P. 91, Ellis Island, NY Harbor records.) Burgoon's were of the pugilistic Burgundiōnes who kicked butt all over Europe starting in ca. 249 AD after they returned to the mainland from Burgundarholmr Island, Denmark. The Kingdom of the Burgundians became a renown part of France --- Burgundy, France. Carroll's great, great, ... uncle signed with Gen. George Washington's Continental Army that tented on Rebel Hill (Where Carroll lived), and Washington's blood-stained Army, marched past The Overhanging Rock at Gulph Mills for a frigid winter at Valley Forge. Carroll was named after Freemason Charles Carroll of Carrollton. CCC was JJ Burgoon's next door neighbor in a German community in Carroll County, Maryland. JJ was a French shoe dog and an artist!
Carroll's great, great, great, ...uncle rode into Fort Worth in 1850.
Carroll flew into DFW from PHL in June 1984, and now, ...
"Henceforth, 'The Great Land' (Alaska) is my every today.
It's almost 2½ times the size of Texas, all y'all,
plus, there are plenty of bears and fish!"
Kevin Costner said,
"You have to decide if you're going to wilt like a daisy or if you're just going to go forward and live the life that you've been granted."
(Dances with Wolves, Field of Dreams, Yellowstone, The Art of Racing in the Rain, ...)
"Just remember, when you're over the hill,
you begin to pick up speed."
Charles Schultz, Peanuts
"I was surprised at 6AM on Christmas morning to get a phone call from a PGA Tour Champion's mirthful wife saying at that moment her husband was rearranging their furniture around his surprise gift!" - Carroll, avid artist/watercolor painter, AND former freshwater environmental biologist and 1970's banked track bike racer.
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