Bodvar Skutvik

Born near Bodø, Norway in 1934 (yes I am that old) After High School ("Real-school" as it was called) in the early fifties I had a stint as a seaman for two years. In 1956 I joined the Air Force as a technician and spent the following twenty-two years there, until -78 when I quit, starting a full time artist/painter career that I am still -- at 63 -- trying to develop (see my homepage). Married, two (grown up) children and still living in Bodø.

As for my intellectual growth I read Salinger's Catcher in the Rye in the early fifties and was very much influenced by his counter-hero Holden Caulfield. Later I came across the then "angry young man" Colin Wilson, and was equally influenced by his "outsiderism" and his later forays into several occult and superrational directions and trends. Through the years I had searched for a solution to a problem I quite couldn't identify, but still nagged me; An existential quest that never left me and made me read philosophy books and reams of scientific magazine articles. In 1978 I accidentally found Pirsig's Zen, and everything changed; for the first time I recognized my own vague thoughts. The rest I have told about in my web essay The Quality Event. (The Quality Event)


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