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Tomislav Sava Carapic, or Tom Carapic, born 1939
in Velisevac, Yugoslavia specialises in found
object artwork. Educated at military school in
Herzegovina in the 1950s, he served as a sergeant
in the Yugoslavian Army. Afterwards he was denied
a college education, possibly because he was not a
member of the Communist Part, and illegally
crossed into Italy in 1961, and, from there,
emigrated to the United States. 

In 1965 he began attending classes at the New York
Art Students League, but dropped out soon
afterwards, eventually attending the Wilfred
Academy of Beauty Culture. However, he was unable
to find steady beauty parlor work, and worked in
menial labor while attending classes in Spanish
Education at Manhattan Community College. Due to a
problem with accredation, he was forced to switch
to classes in the field of studio art.

In the late 1970s, Carapic began experiencing
hallucination|hallucinatory visions; claiming that
his degree problems were caused when "the evil
marriage bureau massed the troops" against his
college and proceeded with "an Air Force
bombardment" of the school. After receiving other
visitations, he began making and showing his art. 

Most of his art centers around found objects, most
famously computer keyboards, especially those by
IBM. Most of his art consists of these objects,
marked with black Sharpie_(marker)|Sharpie
markers, and with green thumbprints and handprints
along the objects.