: About Me

Who we are is always a broad and uneasy question to answer...Well first I'm a visual artist, or at least that has been the biggest part of who I am so far. I started drawing when I could hold a pen and never stopped since. About 14 years ago I started acrylic paint, with a community center introduction course and then self taught from that point on. I moved to inks and watercolours 3 years ago or so and been experimenting with those ever since, and it's safe to say I have fallen in love with watercolours and inks. I've pursued those mediums in a self taught manner as well. I still include acrylic paint in my illustrations sometimes and use acrylics for recycled skateboards that I repaint with my own art, but I have done fewer canvasses lately. I have wanted to be a tattoo artist for several years now and have since bought very good equipment and sterilisation material, but I have only tattooed myself and had a bit of trouble starting. Maybe I'm not ready to tattoo yet and I guess I'm reserving this project for the near future; after all tattooing is not something to take lightly and so I want to be in the right frame of mind and environmental support when I start. My latest project is my acceptance in a prestigious graphic design school here in Montreal, for a graphic designer course that is sure to fill my life with a lot of great new challenges.

Then there's the writer part of me, self taught also, that was sparked in my previous employment. Before we get into that, I'll say that I had always had an interest for writing and indeed had very good abilities in high school, but never pursued it in any way other than maybe trying to write a book which proved to be of course to big an endeavour for an inexperienced writer to achieve. No matter, that project is still alive just not a priority. But I found myself writing very often, never much and always little texts and ideas than weren't significant. Than my previous employer needed training manuals, and I (with no real interest other than getting off the phone!) asked to be on the project. It became clear to my employer and superiors, even clearer for me, that I had some writing abilities and interest. When I left that place I had organised and written probably around 30 training manuals, with several that had more than 25 pages, all of them were written in either in French or English. The main one had about 200 pages and was written in both French and English. So that is where I connected for the first time with my writing interests. Since the end of my employment, I have focused more on my visual arts, but when I stumbled on Helium I was instantly interested with the millions of possibilities here. I'm only beginning, but I think Helium is going to be a big part in achieving additional levels of refinements in my writing skills and I'm very thankful for this site and all that participate in it.

Now on me as a person, wow it sours a bit here! lol! I am undoubtedly the original adolescent in crisis at heart, even at 28 years old! I literally (and I thank my stars all the time for it) was blessed with many possibilities and gifts as an individual, and I will admit that I have spent a llllloooonng time doing virtually nothing with my talents. I still spend most of my days doing stuff many people find "un-adult" like for my age and I never expect I will stop; for even if I acquire more wisdom every day, understand much more about the world around me: I'm one of those eccentrics who remain young inside, live by their own rules and do what they want. I like the motto "measure yourself by your own meter" and that's the meter I use to measure myself. The only difference now is that I accept who I am, see the positive in who I am and have opened my eyes to the world around me.

Ummm...that's about it, you already know too much anyway! lol

Arts & Humanities > Ethics Manners lost in our contemporary age

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We are in a low point in our history when a 28 years old boy talks about the lack of respect and civility there is in our society. People my age and younger are usually the ones who have a certain lack of respect, but even we are finding that we need to have more civility and respect! Unfortunately, at the present time it seems like every time you go out there is going to be someone that will act disrespectfully towards you. Sad but true, and people do it with total disregard for the true potential of their actions. When you think of the average person you don't think of a killer, yet an i...

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