"I live in San Jose, California. I've been taking pictures since my father put his camera in my hands on my 21st birthday. I liked taking pictures because it captured so much so
quickly. I prefer to take pictures of people and scenes, in moments when everything falls into place and tells one of the many stories running through my head. It's a magic trick to be able to find and freeze a moment. But I also quite like to set up scenes to shoot because it makes my brain feel so good to invent as I go. I sometimes have to make up words to describe what I'm after, like 'plentify' and 'enlushen.' Once I learned to develop and print film I all but dropped my childhood life of drawing, painting, etch-a-sketch, origami and any other art form I could find as a kid in Palo Alto, CA.
But I haven't made the motions to put my work forth for others to see until 2008 when by odd chance I received a scholarship offer to take a City-funded course in the best practices for a professional artist. Those fateful Wednesday night classes brought me together with dozens of local professional artists and we formed the Silicon Valley Artists Collaborative. We have been showing our work annually as well as collaborating on projects and networking ever since. I have to say government welfare changed my life and made it possible for me to give back more.
I have dozens of special images I'm itching to show the world, now that I've decided not to hide any longer. Yet I continue to take more photographs and in 2011 I started using Photoshop to combine some of my images into fanciful surreal collages in order to express concepts that can't be photographed. I feel my art has no constant except change."
But I haven't made the motions to put my work forth for others to see until 2008 when by odd chance I received a scholarship offer to take a City-funded course in the best practices for a professional artist. Those fateful Wednesday night classes brought me together with dozens of local professional artists and we formed the Silicon Valley Artists Collaborative. We have been showing our work annually as well as collaborating on projects and networking ever since. I have to say government welfare changed my life and made it possible for me to give back more.
I have dozens of special images I'm itching to show the world, now that I've decided not to hide any longer. Yet I continue to take more photographs and in 2011 I started using Photoshop to combine some of my images into fanciful surreal collages in order to express concepts that can't be photographed. I feel my art has no constant except change."
