About

LOL, not to be taken as a serious portrait. Channelling the GAGA.

I've been writing just this side of forever¹. I went to college in Boston, studying Fine Arts at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in affiliation with Tufts University. BFA in hand, and by then a serious art advocate who has seen the growing, chilling obsolesence of artistic (and art historic) programming in the United States -- I knew I had to merge my skills and knowledge to highlight the daily experience of art, the mindfulness of it, and hopefully, the growth of dialogue in the populace.

I love erudite scholarship, and do believe that we must use a critical eye in contextualizing, or indeed agreeing upon, what art is. Yet, ultimately, art is not to be taken as something lofty. We all possess membership in the pro-arts club. It's present around us. The opportunities to engage artistically are endless. So are the opportunities to weigh in on the debate around theory. It's here for you, it is in your life.

If your buck stops at cinema, that's still an opportunity. "Date Night," starring Steve Carrell and Tina Fey... worth 10 bucks? (Yes, absolutely worth 10 bucks) That is a discussion on the merit of art's commodity.

If you catch a glimpse of the Mona Lisa and think: Really??--then you have the carte blanche to expound on that or wax philosophic on the validity of aesthetic harmony and principles of balanced composition in representation.

Your instincts can guide you to a rich experience of the world. The more you talk about it, the more it changes you, and deepens your intellectual engagement with the everyday stuff. Share your opinion with five people, the impact of that ripples everywhere, and that collective consciousness of art is what forces the hand of a gallery. We need to add more voices to that chorus line, and make art something that belongs to everybody, and yet also educates everybody and sends mind-blowing propositions to those who've never turned an orange around in their hand and realized it isn't completely orange.

When I write, and share my artistic musings, I am another beacon illuminating the presence of creativity and inspiration. I hope you enjoy what I write and find empowerment to challenge yourself; find beauty and individuality wherever you wish to create it.

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^{1 "Just this side of forever," - Glory's response to being asked about how long 'the key' has existed in Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Season 5.}