: About Me

I have been drawing since I can remember. Even before I could write, I was drawing. I grew up in San Diego, California. I won my first poetry writing contest somewhere around 12 years old.

I moved to Colorado in 1996 to go to college, and have been here ever since.

I love the arts and poetry. I am passionate about them. They are my reason for being. With out it I don't think I would of been able to survive the trials in which this life has thrown in my path.

"I don't like to say I have given my life to art. I prefer to say art has given me my life." ~Frank Stella

My passion is ...

Art, Writing, Love and Life

I know too much about ...

Computers, Art, Writing and Philosophy

My parents always told me ...

There'd be days like these.

My childhood ambition ...

To be an artist.cartoonist or an animator.

My favorite memory ...

the birth of my sons

Why I write ...

To release the the demons and the angels that are locked up within me.

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

Scrubs

My first job ...

Pizza place

My inspiration ...

Life is the only inspiration you will ever need

Arts & Humanities > Artists & Artwork Van Gogh: Artistic brillance vs. insanity

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I often find it perplexing on why so many quickly dismiss the brilliance of Van Gogh. Labeling him as a mad man, and not taking note of how trapped he was in his own brilliance. I have recently started reading through several of his letters to his brother Theo. My impression is he is like many artist (or so I assume). I know in of myself I seem to trapped by art. She is my mistress and this will never change, no matter what. We as artist tend to see the world in minute detail. I think that we tend to not recognize that we see things differently then the general public. Colors are more vivi...

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