From early on I exhibited tendencies toward the artistic creative
side so through the encouragement of my parents through school tried
to explore my creativity. My first major success in the wide world
of art was during my senior year in high school when I wont my first
major art competition. It was an acrylic on canvass board of a young
lion peaking over a sand dune. I had used the airbrush to create the
background effects and then brush painting of the lion itself. A success
at this point in my career actually presented quite a dilemma. My
father was an engineer and I had excelled in physical sciences and
math so my obvious choice for college was engineering. Now, with a
potentially successful career in art ahead of me what was I to do?
I decided to get the best of both worlds and get my undergraduate
degree in architecture.
My
first year experience in college was with an architectural design
professor that based his laboratory on computers to facilitate architectural
graphics and graphic design. Architecture is not all about CADD drawings
and indeed as I progress through the major I am seeing that architecture
is about creative problem solving with a special emphasis on visual
arts and spatial awareness.
This introduction to the computer as a design tool fed naturally into
my hobby as a web page developer. I found the Internet to be a flexible
tool that would allow me to explore potential in graphic designs that
had real world application. This hobby provided incredible incentive
to learn the electronic tools at my disposal so I pick up Adobe Photoshop
and thus entree digital artwork. At first, my pieces were largely
insignificant explorations of the program as I learned to wield it
with power.
Second
year in architectural design began my earnest initiation into creating
art on the computer for the sake of art. My design professor Dan Panetta,
who I see now as my catalyst, managed to get me into a debate about
the nature of beauty. I began my person explorations into the essence
of beauty from a logical standpoint. At this point I was considering
a philosophy minor and I had numerous courses to that effect under
my belt, so I first tackled the beauty problem logically. I followed
it to the end of reasoning, finding that it required more than pure
reasoning to derive a meaning. What I needed was a way to explore
these concepts intuitively. My first four works "Escape of the
Mind," "Creation of Man," "Destruction Reconstruction,"
and "Season's Voyage" where the direct result of this need
to conceptualize beauty intuitively. Gradually the concept of beauty
changed to incorporate communication and interpretation. Now armed
with both a logical conception and an intuitive exploration, I took
this back and since then, it has been the subject of many debates
and much philosophizing. Dan encouraged me to continue with my interpretation
and as a result I have now created thirty something works and my definition
of beauty seems to shift on a regular basis as I explore different
aspects.
Art Competition:
The Art Department. Australia, January 1999. Top 20 artist, International Artist
Competition. Digital work entitled, "Life Engine."
Las Juntas Art Association. April 1996. First Place, best of show for an acrylic on
canvas board painting of a lion cub.
Las Juntas Art Association. April 1996. Sixth Place, for an abstract airbrush acrylic on
paper.
My
first year experience in college was with an architectural design
professor that based his laboratory on computers to facilitate architectural
graphics and graphic design. Architecture is not all about CADD drawings
and indeed as I progress through the major I am seeing that architecture
is about creative problem solving with a special emphasis on visual
arts and spatial awareness. 
Second
year in architectural design began my earnest initiation into creating
art on the computer for the sake of art. My design professor Dan Panetta,
who I see now as my catalyst, managed to get me into a debate about
the nature of beauty. I began my person explorations into the essence
of beauty from a logical standpoint. At this point I was considering
a philosophy minor and I had numerous courses to that effect under
my belt, so I first tackled the beauty problem logically. I followed
it to the end of reasoning, finding that it required more than pure
reasoning to derive a meaning. What I needed was a way to explore
these concepts intuitively. My first four works "Escape of the
Mind," "Creation of Man," "Destruction Reconstruction,"
and "Season's Voyage" where the direct result of this need
to conceptualize beauty intuitively. Gradually the concept of beauty
changed to incorporate communication and interpretation. Now armed
with both a logical conception and an intuitive exploration, I took
this back and since then, it has been the subject of many debates
and much philosophizing. Dan encouraged me to continue with my interpretation
and as a result I have now created thirty something works and my definition
of beauty seems to shift on a regular basis as I explore different
aspects.