James McFarland:  Multi-Disciplinary Art

gJames McFarland is an East Lansing, Michigan resident closely connected with the Michigan State Universtity community.  James studied independently with a leader in the Sculpture Department for 20 years.  He is a multidisciplinary eccletic, and has achieved the following:  1971 Graduate of MSU with a B.A. degee in Social Science studying Psychology, Sociology and English.  He worked in Mental Health and brougth many capable people out of a Michigan Isnstitution and helped them funcion in the Lansing Community.  He lived in a VW Camper for 4 months with his wife and young daughter traveling the Northwestern US and Canada.  He also farmed, both big commercial farming, worked with the Amish and used horses to farm, and created a small subsistence farm is Southwestern Michigan.  James completed the training to become a Psychotherapist in the 70's.  He became a licensed home builder, studied art, and worked and a variety of projects with Bob Weil, Professor of Sculpture at MSU. Since building his first soaking tub, James has become a Grandfather to 5 amazing young children.  He enjoys his two daughters, Michelle and Jessica, their husbands and the little ones.  He has become a private pilot, and enjoys acrobatic flying, pleasure flying, and cross country travel.

Bob brought the Japanese Soaking tub to James' attention in1978, promting him to build a cement hot tub in an olsd stairways that had been covered over and went nowhere.  That was the start of his carreer building state-of-the-art soakings, which cost only pennies a day to operater, are extremely small, use the same water for 5+ years, clean as a whistle, and used chemically free.  This offers a sensible, environmentally friendly alternative to larger more expensive, water and energy wasteful tubs.  The single most important aspect of this product development is the fundamental truth that sitll water feels cooler, and therefore still water tubs can be use hotter, and provide a staggering array of healht benefits to the user.

Art, design, environment appropriateness, building, and being involved the healing community is what keeps james young vibrant and moving ahead!

To quote Buckmaster Fuller: "All universities have been progressively organized for ever finer specialization. Society assumes that specialization is natural, inevitable, and desirable. Yet in observing a little child, we find it is interested in everything and spontaneously apprehends, comprehends, and co- ordinates an ever expending inventory of experiences. Children are enthusiastic planetarium audiences. Nothing seems to be more prominent about human life than its wanting to understand all and put everything together."