Who
is Jim Power
Power was born in Ireland, in Waterford. His family
immigrated to
Long
Island and as a young man he served in
Vietnam.
After Vietnam, Power came home...more or less. He
lived on the margins, never far from the war that
took his youth and took much of the rest of his
life. For 20 years now, he has festooned the
East
Village with joyous art. “Very tiptop of the
morning!” he yells to folks on their way to the
never-ending grind of making a living in New York
as he pastes
broken
glass and pottery to the gray metal lampposts.
