Bio

I create things. I am an artist. I paint, perform, dance, imagine. i paint with the mische technique, the technique of the old masters. I am a fashion designer, making dresses and clothing of all types that fall into the definition "art you can wear." i make some of the best organic hand rolled truffles i've ever had. I started off my childhood playing the piano and wanting to become a paleontologist all at the age of 4. Around high school, i chose between becoming a concert pianist and pursuing painting because i felt that only by becoming an artist, could i follow my many interests, diving into history, science, culture, pretty much the hows, why, when, and whats of life.
My paintings are pictorial books, the fruits of long hours of research and contemplation. I try to fuse together common ideas gathered from the garden of world faiths, and along with modern ideas in physics, histories of all kinds, and in depth cultural studies, i strive to create new dialogues between all of these elements in order to forge a more aware consciousness that lays dormant in our psyche.

Skills and talents

making stuff. coming up with new ways of doing something. teaching. painting. crochet. innovation. cooking. baking. communicating with birds, especially parrots. talking. writing. i dunno.

Interests

ancient history, art, Cosmology, cultural history, History, life itself, Music, oracles, Painting, Physics, prophets, sages, Science, Shamanism, spirituality, string theory especially M theory, Sustainability, way too many to really list here, whoa, world history

What I'm Reading

"Fingerprints of the Gods," by Graham Hancock, Asana Pranayama Bandha by Swami Satyananda Saraswati, Shamanism by Mircea Eliade, Tantra: The Supreme Understanding by Osho

What I'm Listening To

Parov Stelar, Conjure One, Delerium, Dead Can Dance, Coldplay, The Killers, Muse, Akufen, BT, Aria, Cassius, Cafe del Mar CDS, Chicane, Kosheen, Cornelius, Daft Punk, Deep Dish, Dj Shadow, the Future Sounds of London, Ulrich Schnauss, Trentemoller, Thievery Corporation, REM

Movies I've Seen Recently

Krull, Red Sonja, Tron, Auntie Mame, Idiocrasy, Excalibur, Stargate Universe: season 1

Websites I'm Into

Society for Art of Imagination, Lila, Etsy , And another one

Education

High school

Kenston High School

College

Carnegie Mellon University

Graduate school

San Francisco Art Institute

Additional study

mische technique w/ Brigid Marlin painting with Martina Hoffman and Robert Venosa learning to crochet from my grandmother Life.