Descending from grandparents who traveled from homes in Hungary and Russia, silent lotus was born in America. He was raised in the small unique and historic community of Roosevelt, N.J.
In his mid twenties he left for the island of St. Maarten in the Caribbean to give priority to his talents as a visual artist. There he began a friendship with the songwriter Doug Shawe. And after two years, as crew of a 30-meter sailboat, he ventured across the Atlantic Ocean along with the owner, film producer Saul Zaentz. From the Mediterranean he traveled overland through Europe and settled in the more...