For me, art is a voyage of discovery. I am as surprised by the art I create as anyone else who views it. Though I constantly strive to improve my skills, I am much more interested in creating something new (and hopefully beautiful) under the sun than in craftsmanship. I feel that photography has superseded other forms of art when it comes to reproducing the external world -it is the interior landscape that I strive to explore and reveal.
BIO
Born in Paris, France in 1950. Moved to New York when I was 5 years old. From an early age, developed an (unhealthy? obsessive?) interest in fantasy, science fiction, surrealism and anything that was beautiful and mysterious. My parents called me "Jean de la Lune" because I was often distracted by things that they couldn't understand. Also had an aptitude for drawing from an early age, but never really pursued it seriously back then. Went away to college in 1967, at the time that the psychedelic zeitgeist was reaching critical mass & got swept up in the maelstrom. Ego disintegrated & a new one rose like a phoenix from the ashes. Began drawing & painting in a stream-of-consciousness mode, bypassing the rational mind. Fell in love, moved to Berkeley, California, and had a son. Took art classes (illustration, figure drawing, portraiture, color theory, etc.). In the late 70's, began playing with computers. Learned to program & wrote simple applications for generating visual patterns. Having no real aptitude for marketing my artwork, I instead embarked on a career in information technology, which lasted 22 years, at which time I quit (in May of 2003). My current incarnation as a digital artist began with the first release of Fractal Design Painter. I experienced a breakthrough with the first release of Bryce, which was the medium that enabled me to finally satisfy my creative impulses. I use many other supporting pieces of software (Amorphium, Poser, & several others), but they only provide me with input for Bryce. All of my images are rendered only in Bryce, with no post-processing at all. Each of them starts with a bare-bones idea or model or texture which I then attempt to allow to evolve in whatever direction "it" decides & which I have never been able to predict. I obsessively tweak shapes, colors, textures, & visual relationships until the image seems "right". If the final result is somewhat disturbing and disorienting, yet at the same time beautiful, then I have succeeded...
Comments (8)
MFM008
looks like your fact checkers got it about right.
LuckyLook
Great !!! Open your eyes, people !
potrimpo
Where's Lex Luthor when you need him?
VividViolet
According to my research in the year 2000, Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, and there was irrefutable proof then. Since I know this from personal experience, none of your accusations hold water. Forged documents, name calling, will the Kerry supporters stoop any lower to trash Bush? Probably so, and it must be all motivated by fear. All of this just for an election. How sad.
Flipflopper1
Not to mention the "other guy" said there were WMDS,and voted for the patriot act.
groush2
I normaly do not participate in such "forms". But I cannot control myself (lol), Bush or Kerry ?....hmmm let me see....they are both Politicians...they are both multi-millionaires... they both are members of the "Skull and Bones Society"....they both have media consultants that spoon up a daily diet of flotsam to be ingested by the American Public. They both are so incredibily "removed" from the real world of the American Public and the trials and tribulations we experience. When will people wake up and see that a presidential election is a 2 year (or longer) media event ? Blurry electronic images that soon or later run together into a baffling smear. I agree with VividViolet..."All of this this just for an election".... I intend to vote for Ivan Karp....world renown art dealer and agent,the reason,I think he has a cool name !
eyeland
groush2, I understand your cynicism about politics, but there's a world of difference between Bush & Kerry. You may think that it won't affect you, but sooner or later it will. When a government gets skewed too far in an extreme direction as it has today (militant, go-it-alone foreign policy, putting the interests of corporations over those of ordinary people, shredding the Bill of Rights, blurring the line between church & state, etc.), it's vital that citizens take note & vote to set us back on a more moderate course. Kerry is far from perfect, but at least he's capable of honest, reasonable & intelligent thought (often mistaken by simplistic, rightwing extremists as "flipflopping" or "indecisiveness").
Mivan
All politicians are swine; it's just that some are so much better at it than others..........