When beginning to conduct my research on walker world the first source I went to was Allen Walker himself. In June 2015 I got his number from mutual friends and called him up and asked if I could come by to meet him. I had heard numerous stories of this artist retreat hidden in the woods and had to see it for myself. His out pour of excitement surprised me and he hastily welcomed me to come over the following night.
Since June, I have spent numerous days with Walker getting to know his story and life. My research has been from our person conversations together and listening to his life stories for hours. Besides our time together I have spent many nights talking to his oldest friends and family interviewing them about walker and his impact on him. His family tells stories of a wild child with an ambition to roam.
His life was recently featured in Salt Magazine. That interviewer did a brief overview of his life focusing on the look of his home. This write up gave me some factual information about his childhood. They are not nearly as personal as the stories I have heard though. I want this documentary to go much deeper into Walkers psychological perspective on his life and find out what has sculpted him into the person he is.
Talking to his children and preparing to interview them is another deeper research path I will take. His three children are just as outspoken and full of love and life as he is. However, they hold a very mature perspective of their father and notice all the fun and shocking moments his life has presented. They have been crucial in providing me with a deeper inside perspective on his persona as a father. It seems that their is a lack of separation between walker the father and walker the entertainer.
I want to highlight the realistic sides of his life and the beautiful moments he shares with his family while refusing to place shadows on his life, he is an open book.
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