Subject: Searching for Redemption
| Posted By: mmillevolte
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| Posted On: 9/16/2005 5:07 AM
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Its quite a long story. In a nut shell I need to get on with my life.
I was one of the earlier artists to join this site. I was a respected artist in NYC for well over a decade. Today I live in solitude. 9/11 changed my life forever. Since that horrific day my life has been been filled with hardship. Happenings of which I have had little or no control over. Death surounded me. I lost a girlfriend 2 days later to suicide. I lost all my viable income overnight.
My most famous sculpture a Kinetic American Flag malfunctioned while being on display at El Teddys resturant while iron workers in charge of cleariing the dead from the buildings looked on. I was devistated.
A kind iron worker pulled me aside and offered me a tour of ground zero while it was still on fire. I wandered the site aimlessly for hours. I still have the hard hat I wore that somber night.
With no source of income I was fortunate to have been offered an opportunity to design an art cafe in Naples Fl. and moved there in Nov. of 2001. The cafe looked great my flag was fixed and life seemed to take a new turn for me. Unfortunatly the individual who financed the cafe was killed in a motorcycle accident the day before our grand opening.
Again I was left with no source of income. Eventually I decided to move back to my home town of Green Bay Wi.and be near family.
Things were going well until my mothers house I was temporarily staying at caught fire and was destroyed. Eventually I settled into the "smallest" house in Green Bay.
Things began to pick up again and all of a sudden I received several orders for my colorful ceiling fans through the internet. Desperate for cash I was only charging $320 per fan. After cost of materials my profits on each fan would be about 75$. Soon I would be a victum of technology. All the fan's light ballasts no longer had magnetic coils ~ rendering the fans useless in regard to generating the colorful patterns under the UV light .I could not return the fans because I did not discover the change until they were modified and completed. Because of this I was unable to satisfy my orders. Of course those who ordered the fans were outraged and began to slander my name utilizing web site forums as one of their tools to slander me. None of them beleived my misfortune. I was now broke and had a stack of useless modified fans filling my narrow hallway. They are still there till this day. I now had to find other forms of employment~ my career as an artist came to an end and i have not had the inspiration to create a thing since. I soon found a job working in a pet shop specializing in coral reefs.
I did very well making the store a handsome profit. Then came Pet-co 2 blocks down. I am now again out of a job. I want to be able to create fine art again as ceiling fans were more of a novelty.
Now when I do a search of my name your website comes up before mine in Google declaring me as a thief. This coming from your forums section.
If you could find it in your hearts to remove any mention of my name and references of being a theif from from your site I may be able to regain my life as an artist again. I was never charged with a crime and your publishing these words may be slanderous. In your forums I found myself being remorsefull again. The only way I could possibly pay these people back is through my creation of art.
Any descrepencies between me and the customers who never recieved their fans is in the jurisdiction of the law and not the pages of your site.
Please do the right thing and give me a chance to regain my life and dignity.
Sncerely Michael Millevolte.
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