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My ART Is MY Life Story

Meditative truthful lifelong digital art expressing self & earth love.

I am an Oregon artist. I connected with the arts early in life learning dance. As a youth and teenager, I danced, and I immersed myself in movies. I was also captivated by still black and white images. From early childhood I was in love with visual experience, movies, and magazines.

In dance I learned the pleasure of moving through time and space to music. Throughout childhood and as a young adult I learned multiple dance forms and performed. I found it comfortable to use dance and visual images as a language to understand the world.

My first memory of creating with my hands is shaping a soap sculpture in grade school. I recall the feel of the ivory soap as I sculpted the form. I liked the thrill of making something tactual from an everyday household object. In the 70’s …

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Meditative truthful lifelong digital art expressing self & earth love.

Let’s Get To It: Talk About Art and Money

Its About Money and Art Career 1990-2024 When I agreed to present at the 80th Techspressionism salon "Money" I was thinking I'll discuss a few art career jobs I worked over the years. Well that is not what happened. I...

Goodbye 2023, you were fun, Hello and Welcome 2024

Goodbye 2023, Hello 2024 Are you welcoming the new year? It is March and I am looking back to 2023, seeing how it was a fun art year with many art adventures. In reflection, I am happy to tell you that last year was an...

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