Photography:   Referred to as 'modern surrealism', photo manipulation often involves retouching and restoring, blending photos, graphics and other visual elements together to create extraordinary artworks and effects.

Born in Chicago, I began as a designer, a cartoonist, active in theater, directing and producing, a performer of Mime and a student of ‘improv’ at the Chicago's Second City Company. On an assignment in California and on a dare, I began to paint and had my first one woman show 6 months later, I fell in love with paint and never returned to Chicago. In California, best known as Gaslamp’s Comic-Con painter, a digital illustrator, muralist and as Monterey Jazz Festival’s stage set designer for 26 years. But in 2013, fate changed my course. I moved back to Chicago to care for my mother who had dementia. Away from my paint, I began to write and authored the book I needed to read but couldn’t find, Wonders in Dementialand, the other side of dementia no one is talking about.WHAT SETS ME APART I look at life different than most people. I believe in almost everything, it's mentally healthier. Creators and magicians cannot be skeptical. They need to make themselves available to the thing that is being born and that is still shapeless and not properly defined.EXPERIENCE AND TECHNICAL SKILLS Conceptional assignments from brainstorming to finished project. • Writer/Author: Wonders In Dementialand • Podcast Producer: DementialandTM - Writing and Imagery- Audacity for Recording, FinalCutPro for Editing, • Painter: San Diego Gaslamp’s Comic-Con Painter • Painter: Contemporary Exhibitions, Installations and Murals • Stage Set Designer: Monterey Jazz Festival (1993–2018) • Digital Imaging: Editor, Image Manipulation and Painting • Design: Branding, Logo, Imaging

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