Bursting out of a rock at some undistinguished point in the 20th century, the artist later named Triska then proceeded to eat a lot of fruit and raw meat until the Canadian goverment issued a surgeon's general warning. Escaping to the US, Triska relocated to New York and mysteriously graduated from Parsons School of Design and Eugene Lang College with a BA/BFA, and then got some well deserved rest. Until the aliens, anyways.
Here is a depiction of the artist as a young ink blot: