Ars Gratia Artis
This is the page where I’m supposed to share things about myself that relate to my professional life. Unfortunately, I was raised not to talk about myself much. So writing this page is kind of like going to the dentist for me.
Here goes: I enjoy art, photography, vegetable gardening, hiking, fossil hunting, nature, health, science, writing, politics, cooking, history and religion. I love learning.
And yes, I was forced to take Latin as a kid. “Art for art’s sake.”
Creative Artist
My creative expression can take form in sculptures, mixed media collages, paintings, photographs, poems, screenplays, even songs. Even if I never have another creative thought in my life, I have enough concepts written down in files, or “soon-to-be-art” in boxes, that I could happily stay busy forever.
Visual Artist
My first-ever real purchase was an all-manual 35mm Minolta SRT-200 camera. It weighed a ton, had a metal body, and I swear you could drive in tent stakes with that thing. Cameras have evolved a lot since then, from film to tape to digital. But having an eye and telling a story is still something that develops (pardon the pun) over time.
Make Art not War
Sometimes art can be political, sometimes it’s conceptual, sometimes it’s just about the beauty of a thing. Personally, I find art isn’t just something I want to do, it’s something I need to do. Sometimes it helps me express my anger in a tangible form, sometimes it brings me joy, and sometimes it sustains me when I can’t manage to do anything else.
Experienced
It doesn’t really matter if it’s paint, digital video, or film – it’s all just ever-changing media shared on ever-changing formats. Experience still matters on set or in post.
But the ability to tell a story – whether it’s by taking a single photograph, producing and editing TV commercials, making a short video, or creating a documentary – is what I can offer to clients and collaborators.
