Art adds a fifth dimension to the hologram we live. Expressing raw imagination in forms that can be shared is grace wielding our magic wand.
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It is impossible for me to choose just one! Illustration, photography & painting all deliver their own delicious flavors of experience & satisfaction. Editorial illustration using pen & ink is the most fun for me; cerebral romp with meaning & message. Line quality is as tactile as it is visual. The complexities of photography bring different challenges, affording permanence to glimpses of life & light that would otherwise be ‘here & gone,’ apparitions never repeated. Painting is immersive.
Where do you find inspiration?Nature has always deeply fascinated me. I’ve grown in mountain wilderness, slept on the bottom of the ocean, & flown high high winds. Life’s passion has never found its limit. Visual expression of personal experience grows in proportion to the lifetime lived. As a sport & commercial diver in the ‘80s, then later as an underwater photographer in Hawai’i, I lived thousands of hours amphibiously. Respect for Nature is the message of Project PEACE, started in 1991. Peace inspires my service & art.
What would you do with $25,000?I would advance my provisional patent on “Leché Verdé,” an herbal elixir I started making with the whole Cannabis plant.
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