- His adolescence is spent looking for knowledge, for the divine, for home. Given what Rush confronts on his travels - from ordinary heartbreak to unimaginable violence - it is a miracle he is still alive. The Light Years is a prayer for vanished friends, an odyssey signposted with broken and extraordinary people. It transcends one boy’s story to perfectly illustrate the slow slide from the optimism of the 1960s into the.
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The Light Years By Chris Rush
The Light Years is a joyous and defiant coming-of-age memoir set during one of the most turbulent times in American history. Chris Rush was born into a prosperous, fiercely Roman Catholic New Jersey family. But underneath the gleaming mid-century house, the flawless hostess mom, and the thriving businessman dad ran an unspoken tension that, amid the upheaval of the late 1960s, was destined to fracture their precarious facade. His older sister Donna introduces him to the charismatic Valentine, who places a tab of acid on twelve-year-old Rush’s tongue, proclaiming: “This is sacrament. You are one of us now.”
The Light Years is a joyous and defiant coming-of-age memoir set during one of the most turbulent times in American history. Chris Rush was born into a prosperous, fiercely Roman Catholic, New Jersey family. Chris Rush is now an established artist but he used to be a drugged out teenage drifter. 'The Light Years' is his recollection of his youth in exile. Forced from home and school for being queer, Chris finds kinship with drug dealers and other societal outsiders. He lives off the profits of drug sales, while eagerly consuming many of his wares.
After an unceremonious ejection from an experimental art school, Rush heads to Tuscon and disappears into the nascent American counterculture. His adolescence is spent looking for knowledge, for the divine, for home. Given what Rush confronts on his travels—from ordinary heartbreak to unimaginable violence—it is a miracle he is still alive. The Light Years transcends one boy’s story to perfectly illustrate the slow slide from the optimism of the 1960s into the darker and more sinister 1970s. Rush confronts his lost childhood and, finally, himself.
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Editing & Sound Design: Eric Hopper
Photography: Eric Hopper and Mike Slack
Additional images: Chris Rush
Music: Jeff Westerman, Eric Hopper, Matt Hopper
Chris Rush The Light Years Artist Who Lives