‘To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is swear off having ideas.’ – Leo Burnett
What about me? Just take my first memory: I’m two years old, lying in my crib, awake. I’m overwhelmed with the need to escape or more precisely the need to figure out how to escape. I size up my surroundings and begin to crack the code of the baby crib. Intuitively, I mimic what I’ve seen the warden, my Mom, do. I reach around until I find the steel release bar and pull on it until it moves. Then I lift up the drop-down gate, push it outward and watch it slide down. It was too easy. I feel on top of the world. Then I proceed to roll out of the crib and fall flat on my ass.
It’s hard to remember what happened next. I may have started bawling, my mom may have come running in –- it doesn’t really matter. What matters is that the very next day, I didn’t let the fear of falling on my ass stop me from attempting another breakout. I woke up, took the gate and lowered it again. But instead of tumbling, I climbed out on the lowered rails to freedom.
To this day, I’ve remained as fearless a problem solver as I was in that room, in that crib. Now, throw in an inherent artistic sensibility, years of experience as a designer and fabricator for advertising -- film, television, print and digital –- top it off with more recent successes with independent book marketing and publishing, and the creative possibilities are endless. From concept to construct, two dimensions to three, handmade to digital, I offer an unwavering desire to solve the problems before me. It’s just something I’ve been doing for as long as I can remember.
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