CURRENT MISSION

To explore interesting locations, avenues of the mind, and absorb as much as possible from other people whom I happen to meet along the way!

ABOUT ME

I am an excitable person. I love and find it necessary to travel and experience different cultures. Art plays an astronomical role in my life, and the perpetual motion that it generates is one of the things that gets me up in the morning. I am fascinated by nature, space, sounds, and the ocean. Expression is extremely important to me. I embrace my wild side and encourage others to do so as well. I wish that this site had sound effects. Produced by me. And a ferret. Currently, I am wrapping up my degree in the history of art and visual culture, and enjoying it immensely. I volunteer at the local animal shelter and some soup kitchens in my free time and try to spend as much time as possible outside. I am very fond of listening to music (superfluous to say), digging for records, and dancing. I am keen on finding strange things to incorporate in my art. I suppose I draw a lot.

PHILOSOPHY

I am fascinated by humans and their particular ways. I believe that it is crucial to explore the unknown, for in those experiences, insight to oneself, others, and the world at large is gained. I think that patience and compassion are truly valuable virtues, and that the ability to share and embrace empathy are extremely important components to personal development. By letting go of inhibitions, enjoying the moment to the fullest, and recognizing how splendid it is to be alive, anything is possible. There is much to learn from the obscure. Communication is the fruit, and one must eat to live!

Interests

Milkshakes. Literature. ART. Laughing, burritos, biology, space, dinosaurs, space dinosaurs, the ocean, music, creativity, convergence, crunchy things, textures, colors, climbing trees, sounds, architecture, whales, dreams, archetypes, details, what kind of bird I'd be, music, various sensations, design concepts, shapes, flora & fauna, my next adventure...

• animals
• arts
• culture
• literature
• architecture
• design
• dancing
• traveling
• drawing
• music
• rock climbing
• biology
• history
• volunteering

Music, Movies, and Books

Authors: Franz Kafka, James Baldwin, Virginia Woolf, Mark Twain, Jean Paul Sartre, Camus, Anaïs Nin, Langston Huges, Jorge Luis Borges, Djuna Barnes, Thoreau, Foucault, Hermann Hesse, Samuel Beckett, James Joyce, Vonnegut, Kay Boyle, Aleister Crowley, e.e. cummings, Miller, Jane Austin, Tom Robbins, Poe, Carl Jung, E.M Forester, Mina Loy, Hunter S. Thompson, Oscar Wilde, Fyodor Dostoevsky, bell hooks, Vladimir Nabokov, Joseph Conrad, David Foster Wallace, Gertrude Stein, Hemingway, Baudelaire, William Blake, Sylvia Plath, Jack Kerouac, Charles Bukowski, Anne Sexton, many many more...

Flicks: The Life Aquatic, Labyrinth, Thundercrack! Rushmore, Super Fly, The Lodger, Harold and Maude, Ballet Mécanique, Shortbus, Enter the Dragon, Shortbus, Blade Runner, Orphée, Scorpio Rising, El Topo, The Holy Mountain, Blue Velvet, Rockers, Les Valseuses.

Music: I'm not going to say 'everything' because people who say that are lameos. I listen to a lot of sounds, always/lately; soul, blues, experimental jazz, whale communication, classical, hiphop, exotica, funk, cha cha cha, bird songs, lo-fi, old french pop, rock, electronic, & some metal. Podcasts: Radiolab, This American Life, FecalFace, Science Friday.