AGE
Twenty-One

COLLEGE ENROLLMENT STATUS
Dropout: Edgewood Art College

PERSONALITY TRAITS
Self-centered, unironic, well read, snow white tan

ARTISTIC MEDIUM
Writing

FAVORITE QUOTE
“I’d like to call everyone’s attention to myself.” Kyle Waxman

HISTORY
A pompous writer, Kyle is - in many ways - the poster boy for the “driftwood”. The fact that he chooses not to acknowledge his “driftwood” status only bolsters this fact. Kyle saw his defection from Edgewood Art as a bold and decisive step away from conformity. That is how he sleeps at night.

Kyle’s life has been marked by the most terrible affliction an artist can face: normality. There was nothing about his life to set him apart from the crowd; so he took it upon himself to do that. After trying several different personas he settled on a combination of cunning writer and social critic. Through his self-produced zine, “wax-muse-e-um”, Kyle distanced himself from the status quo by lashing out at it. He didn’t care who he upset or what conventions he overturned in his search for truth, which is just as well since no one ever read his zine.

After escaping the crushing banality of high school Kyle fled to the Edgewood Art College - for if he was going to be unique, he at least wanted to do it with a large group of people. But it turned out that everyone at art school was a pretentious hack, nothing like him at all. In the space of a few days, he went from the only person he knew who liked M.C. Escher to the only one who wasn’t bored with his work. And the classes, in Kyle’s mind, represented the corruptness and fallibility of institutionalized learning. And what was with the president of the school giving out copies of her self-portrait?

Citing these reasons, and many others, Kyle dropped out of college after only a year. To avoid the shame of moving back home, he moved in with his friend Gig and began working on “wax-muse-e-um” full time in an effort to define himself as an artist and distance himself from normality.