About Me

I struggle with letting others know who I am via the written form.

With that said, please enjoy the following as I put into context the history of who I am, where I came from, to who I am now.

Born in May 1984 in Lake Worth, Florida. By the age of four or five, I started creating. I was told I gained my creativity from my mother, who passed away when I was two years old. My grandfather saw this and inspired me. He helped make me who I am today, at least that is how I see it. My memory is not 100% about this time, but I recall him telling me to pick a name for myself and let that describe to others who I was with my gifts.

His words stuck with me, helping me in my mental and physical journey in life. As years went on, I completed different art projects for myself but nothing for the public. During my early teenage years, I learned basic website coding and designing pages for others. By the start of my high school years, I had picked a stage craft class which taught me about physical construction of theater settings. During this time a director from the “Florida Stage” team picked my school to put on a show called “Gunplay,” a multi-scene play portraying the history of gunpowder from its use in fireworks invented in China to the invention of guns, including the pros and cons of such items.

By my mid-teens, I gained full grants to attend classes at the Armory Art Center (2001-2005). While at the Armory Art Center, I learned about pottery, sculpting, glazing, and kiln use. In my 2002/2003 school year, I took up a few different projects within the school, from photography for the yearbook team and school newspaper to designing my school’s first website using the early software of Photoshop and Dreamweaver. This work earned me a reward called “The Great Gatsby” from a private group who watched the actions of students in Palm Beach County. The money from this reward allowed me to buy new art tools and an updated camera for my creative endeavors. I also bought roller blades.

I finished high school and continued classes at the Armory Art Center while working a job. I learned the value of producing quality items within the arts during this time. I then branched out into restoration of items from different age periods. The oldest restoration project I worked on was of a 1901 camera with the help of a true professional who worked on various technologies from the 1890s-1910 as their primary focus. After finishing that project, his wife taught me food canning.

By my early 20’s I had done so many things I was unsure of what to do next, but during a visit to a local renaissance festival I had met with a group of people who performed live steel combat reenactment. I spent some free time learning about the group and over six months started my journey into learning how to make leather armor, simple chain mail to plate armor sections, and simple weapon repairs. After one year, I gained permission to join their live combat reenactment team. I met some other wonderful artists within this group who did photography as well. They shared their knowledge of lighting in order to capture or create it.

This led me into meeting many other groups, including a “Rocky Horror Picture Show.” I used lighting boards to old spotlights with filters for color changing for stage lighting.

Time passed, and life became hard. I’m not going into the hardships of this history, but in simple words, it affected how much time and money I had for doing anything within the arts.

Roughly around 2009 I moved from Florida to Pennsylvania. Changes were happening, and luckily, this brought me back into the art world. I spent some time with a girlfriend’s uncle learning about and making money doing upholstery. During this time, I also learned from a man who had invented the earliest form of memory foam. I learned so much from this man. It was a fun experience to gain a personal sense of knowledge and a deeper appreciation of the craft.

From 2012 to present day, I returned to restoration projects for clients, making simple metal/glass/wood jewelry, and painting in different mediums. I could go on, but I will be honest. My brain gets jammed up on the timeline of when these things happened. With that said, that is a good amount of who I am as an artist and the history of my creations.