: About Me

I am a professional artist and writer, and the founder of Los Alquimistas, the artists collective in Antigua Guatemala that is starting the Central American Renaissance.

My passion is ...

finding beauty in the world and sharing it with others.

I know too much about ...

not enough. Like Plato said, all I know is that I know nothing.

My parents always told me ...

never to color inside someone else's lines.

My childhood ambition ...

was to be king. Now I'll settle for Fascist Dictator.

My favorite memory ...

was the moment I found out I was very popular and hadn't suspected it.

Why I write ...

is as much a mystery to me as Why I paint, and act, and sing.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

the voices in my head and the ringing in my ears.

My first job ...

was solving murders with my black friend who flew a helicopter.

My best moment ...

must be whatever I do next, or else I will stagnate.

My inspiration ...

comes from every moment I am awake.

Arts & Humanities > Making Art How to put soul and meaning into your art

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The art of today reminds me of the typical American college student, who takes money from his parents with one hand while flipping them off with the other, and here's why. Sir Isaac Newton wrote that if he had seen further than others, it was because he'd stood on the shoulders of Giants. Since that time, we as a species have climbed exponentially higher, to heights undreamed of, and now pat ourselves on the back while we stagnate. We have arrived at this pinnacle of human achievement not by our own works, but by those of our forefathers, yet the methods of those who got us here are disdai...

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