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摘要

A few years after Ken Grimes had his first psychotic break, he started putting some of his ideas about extraterrestrials on canvas. Two decades later, the schizophrenic artist has seen his work appear in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Outsider Art Fair, and New York's Ricco/Maresca Gallery. "We get so accustomed to seeing the same thing," says Leslie Umberger, senior curator at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center. But Grimes actually accomplishes "what many artists aspire to: changing the way we see and think." So how does Grimes think? For one, he disagrees with ufologists who say aliens "would come to Earth to help us build pyramids or Easter Island.