Biography: J Born and raised north of Boston you could say I was a part of the normal family situation of our times. My parents were divorced, and I was raised on a whole lot of television. From the beginning, I struggled through and hated school, mostly because of having learning disabilities. Not being a very creative child, and having no talent to speak of, it seemed to me this world had little or no expectation of me.

Art didn’t come into my life until l was about seventeen years old. When I think back to that moment, it seems as though it was the first time in my schooling that someone had told I had done something good, and I shared this feeling. That one moment flipped the switch, and turned me onto life. Finally, I had direction. I decided I was going to be an artist. Taking photos and making all sorts of collages, the art teachers in my school gave me lots of positive feedback. This opened the floodgates of creativity for me. Most of my thanks goes to those teachers who had finally inspired and encouraged me with positive reinforcement.

After finishing my high school education, it seemed like art school would be my next step in life. I didn’t like these formal classes for long all because all I wanted was to create my art and not do random assignments that would be judged unworthy. I had enough of that crap in high school. It didn’t take long before I dropped out of art school.

This was the lowest point in my life. I had no direction, no purpose. I could have truly cared less if I had lived, or if I had died. My friend said if I didn’t care about living, “then give my life to art”. He told me I needed to start doing real art. I needed to draw and paint. I told him I couldn’t draw or paint, and that every time I tried to create something it turned out awful. He said to me, “Don’t try to make anything. Just draw or paint, and if you see anything there, emphasize it, and try to bring it out”. Every moment that I had, I started to draw. The people around me encouraged me, even though what I did was pretty much a scribble. Then I started to paint and my friends continued to spur me on.

Art picked me up off the bottom, not just healing me, but it made me a master of my own domain. When I did my art, it was my world, and I kicked ass. I traveled this path for seven years before I had my awakening about what it was that I was actually doing, what it was that I was tapping into. Since then I’ve spent the last six years mastering my skills, contemplating art, life, and reality. I’ve been doodling for about thirteen years now and, let’s just say, I’ve done a lot of pondering. I hope you enjoy my art, my message to the world, and my personal visions.

Not being confined to just physical art, I also play guitar, hand-drums, and dj techno and tech-house music. Since I was a teen, I’ve been into skateboarding and snowboarding. Dancing is a passion, and through dance I can truly express the energy and forces that reside in this universe and resonate through me. I love getting down with nature and mother earth, hiking, biking, camping, swimming, fishing, and just chilling at any head-stash spot deep in the woods or on the water. One of my future goals in the next two and half year is to produce a music album called Space Odyssey 2010, be prepared to board the mother ship.

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