Beautiful Boy by Joseph Mykut

Joseph Mykut is a native of Alabama. They are an author, artist, illustrator, editor, photographer, and agent. Their artwork and photography are on display internationally in Ontario, Canada and can be found in the anthologies, “3 Amigos Ink and Splatter Lonely Soul in the Darkness” and “Shattered Psyche”. Both anthologies are I Ain’t Your Marionette publications out of Canada. They also authored and illustrated the children’s books, “Beautiful Boy” and “There’s A Me Under My Bed” of the same publishing house. Joseph is the literary agent of the author Marten Hoyle, whose book, “Voces Animarum,” was published November 22nd, 2023, with I Ain’t Your Marionette Publishing House.

Joseph’s art and photography uniquely focuses on the random, seemingly unimportant aspects of the everyday environment surrounding us. They hope this draws attention to the deeper details that express the magic and beauty in the otherwise mundane.

As members of the LGBTQ2+ community and followers of Shamanism, they hope to create and represent a more tangible bridge between the physical life experience and the world beyond our physical senses.

Joseph was born and raised in the deep south of the United Sates in what’s known as the bible belt. His influences have developed over time to be more of the universe and of spirituality rather than religion. However, Joseph is an ordained minister with the Universal Life Church as it aligns with his perspective that there is truth found in all religious beliefs as they are all smaller pieces to a greater picture.

They identify as a two spirited being or even multi spirited being and identify with all ideas of the gender spectrum. They believe in the existence of both light and dark or positive and negative energies leaving the truth of who we are to be found in the balance of those energies.