Maybe this is but a possibly poetic tribute. Lady Bast, Egypt's Goddess Of The Cats, is far more important. Richard J Childs is some kind of saint, some say. He may or may not be The Shakespeare reincarnated in an age in which "we fight for the very soul of the world". Nick Cave famously & infamously read by Stephen Fry. Fine Art Bastard began for us a blameless linguistic corruption, a resoundingly benevolent & Southern Hemispheric Banksy. Unrelated to James Childs & Boston Movements, this Richard requires of the fine arts "arcane anticipation", known when felt, engendered by way of performances live & incarnate alone. Our magical plumes are the premiere meaning of James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake. Our artifacts are therefore the chips & the drips which fall as they might. All of this is resistance enough through every artificiality & challenge unless sex & racquet sports count. Surely they do. Richard Childs was in 1995 briefly pronounced dead. After Neil Gaiman's Books Of Magic, "Something else got brought back with him. There are differences of opinion on exactly what". All differences aside, Richard J Childs is inventor of the real Tennis Triples to be played melodramatically, eventually on wondrous 135 x 234 foot courts of purple Martian clay. He is also harbinger of imminent miraculously augmented English-Spanish fission sponsored via the fantastically faked deaths of Shakespeare, Pocahontas, & Cervantes for an Oxford comma trumping every other. Revived with yoga revealed through Mahavatar Babaji, these three do not shuffle off beyond the smells of cooking oils in 1616 & 1617 but escape for subtropical shores during the most majestic apricot harvest in Greater European history. That is more than a movie & Tennis Triples is more than a sport, distilled via Richard J Childs' unique post-Odyssean Northern Hemispheric hiatus. Coastally birthed in The Deep Deep Deep South in a Year Of The Boar, Hog, Pig, Swine, 1971 as Led Zeppelin's Stairway To Heaven descended, Richard J Childs is with us somehow. He holds degrees in History & Creative Writing, BA, MA. So what? We all know full well enough conventional introduction, conclusion, biography, portraiture. Renaissance craves more & sure sure sure it is an open question whether anyone has it. Certainly, however, The Right Honourable Jacinda K. Ardern, former New Zealand Prime Minister, at Harvard received an Egyptian Lady Bast Cat Goddess statue painted in layers by Richard J Childs. Billy Gould, founding member of Faith No More, took joyful delivery of one table tennis paddle in San Francisco customized & painted by Richard J Childs. Acrylics by Richard J Childs on canvas belong, for example, to Ryan Prebble, founding Black Seeds member, Honourable David Seymour, Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand, Tim Smith of Tim Smith Music Kapiti, Curry Heaven Wellington, Muthu's Wellington, Sotheby's Greater Wellington, Soundline Christchurch & Wellington, Wellington's Souvlaki Acropolis, & The Wellington Renouf Tennis Centre. Contemporary Ninja & To-Shin Do founder Ahn Shu Stephen K. Hayes & Miami viaduct dominos artist Bo Droga each have a white oak staff Richard J Childs painted. The Kiwi Art House Gallery, 225 Cuba Street, Wellington, New Zealand at +64 4 385 3083 is his sole authorized physical gallery. Safely acquire paintings by Richard J Childs either here or there.