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Personal:
In my last year of high school (1978) in Boulder, Colorado at
16 years old I had completed all the required courses so I had
the opportunity to focus on what really interested me which
was painting, photography, ceramics and mythology.
I took a year off between high school and College and did a
month long meditation retreat at Rocky Mountain Shambhala Center.
Unbeknownst to myself the Shambhala Buddha Dharma entered my
bloodstream but I wanted to be an artist not a buddhist! I attended
the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York City from 1980 until
1985 and graduated with an outstanding student award and a Bachelor
of Fine Arts in Photography.
It took some time for me to discover what kind of a photographer
I am. One of my teachers told me to lock myself in an empty
room alone with my camera and not to come out until all the
film was exposed. I found myself slightly panicked and wanted
to crawl under a table and hide. A light went off inside which
was to photograph myself hiding. That was the beginning of finding
my voice as a photographer. I did self-portraits for the next
year and then it became clear that I needed to get out of the
way of my own work. I left the set and continued to photograph
the environments I had created. Photographing my own created
environments continues until this day.
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