Was in Albuquerque, New Mexico until age two, then spent the rest of my childhood as a silver-sleeved brummy kid in the little town of Ironbridge, England. As my family tends to take advantage of the glorious opportunities that fall into their laps, I had the privilege of spending my pre-teen years in Bahrain in the Persian Gulf. Got to travel around a lot and picked up a lot of random wisdoms... learned weird things like how to talk to wild dogs, to ride crazy horses in the desert, to get free gold by looking cute in the Suq, to identify tear-gas and guess the distance of propane bombs by how much they made the window rattle....among other more typical things kids tend to pick up in strange places. Including an incorrigible nostalgia, distorted social skills, and a dangerous tendency towards optimistic curiosity.Graduated to sub-adulthood in the U.S. I was in Mississippi for almost a decade, and my foreign past is already starting to seem like some romanticized fantasy, in spite of the clear memories and photographic evidence.
So now I'm here in Albuquerque, starting a whole new life of weird with my dog and two kittens and myself. Starting the UNM MFA program in 2009.Lets see...what else....
I like to draw and paint and I like animals and pickles and horses and funky cartoons and block&barrel sandwiches with vinegar and chocolate and Charlie and coffee and quarts of Heineken with blue gummi sharks and pretty beads and finding dead animals and their skulls and sharp pencils and fresh paint and good music and being in weird places like trees and rooftops and alleyways and gutters and ghettos and mountains and the desert and caves at the bottoms of lakes and I like walks in the woods with my close friends who I love dearly but from a safe distance And there's more but that's all I'm gonna let you in on right now.
