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FOR MORE PAST WORKS BY TODD T. BROWN, go to artist website, http://artist-toddbrown.com/I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4Todd T. Brown is a visual artist, musician, and community arts organizer. He has been painting for over 19 years. Over the past four years Todd has dedicated himself to developing an interdisciplinary, intercultural, creative center for the visual and performing arts known as the Red Poppy Art House, located in the mission district of San Francisco. He is also one of the founders of the MAPP: Mission Arts & Performance Project, a bi-monthly grass roots arts festival that features more than 60 visual artists, musicians, poets and performers, that perform simultaneously in over 10 improvised locations all set within a residential community. In regards to painting. . . “I seldom plan a painting. I paint as images and textures occur to me. Most of the time I don't know what lies ahead in the work. It's a conversation with myself, a process of discovering riddles and then interpreting them. I learn about myself in this way, and, for me, that is the most valuable aspect of the work. Of course it's not just about me however. I think, if I go deep enough in that process, I eventually strike something universal, and that's what gives the possibility of the work being meaningful to others"