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Artist Statement
I love art. I have been creating and collecting art for as long as I can remember.
As the complexities of modern life grow, so do the needs and appreciation for art. Owning original art used to be the privilege of royalty and the ultra-rich. Luxuries such as designer clothes and original fine-art are increasingly accessible to larger audiences.
Adopt
I grew up with dyslexia and Asperger's and was obsessed with art and technique. I adopted every artistic technique I could learn about, such as classic illustration and technical drafting (arguably a lost skill). I learned to paint in a variety of media (oil, acrylic, watercolor, pastel) and I studied tirelessly (anatomy, history, architecture) in efforts to be more competent with my art. My obsession grew to photography, sculpting, and also the slightly more obscure areas such as jewelry design, drum painting, leathercraft, comic inking, comic coloring, and typography.
Adapt
My world changed the day I learned about fractal visualization. A seemingly boring college class opened my eyes to a larger world. I was humbled and in complete awe. I remember one day after class staring at a tree and at the intricate patterns of the leaves. I started to see the fractal models and how the leaves were generated. Simple mathematical statements could express an endless regression of detail demonstrating the infinite nature of our world. My perception of reality has never been the same. My obsessions now covered science and mathematics.
Adept
Conventional wisdom points to art and science as being mutually exclusive disciplines; that you cannot do both. Despite that belief persisting today, it is completely wrong. Science requires art and art requires science. The necessary skills are so closely linked that it is often only the vocabulary that is different.
It took me a decade to realize something that seemed obvious to me as a child; I can combine my skills as an artist with my technical skills. In hindsight those skills were never really separate.
This led to the realization of massively-mixed-media art, leveraging technology as means to seamlessly combine illustration, painting, and photography. Fine art has now progressed to such technological depth that artists can freely combine master techniques from the entire history of recorded art.