![]() ![]() Because of this rule, I have an excess of 20 hours i needed to fill. They have an in house rule that every student must attend at least 60 hours on campus. More recently, I was lucky enough to attend The University of Texas at Austin. Mae – As a child I was motivated by my Uncle Bill, who made gigantic dark abstract oil paintings that have changed and morphed over time. I was so inspired by the belief system of creators like William Morris and his business management in the 18th century, I opened my first Sole Proprietorship DBA Sovereign Frequencies an interdisciplinary and multidimensional artisan company focusing on glass, metal, fine, photographic, craft, and urban art as a birthday present to myself, and society as a whole.ĪoA – Where do you derive inspiration from? It was there, in the pages of 300 years old books full of the birth of social value civic necessity that I was engulfed in the 17th and 18th century romantics vision and encroachments and birth of philosophical values of beauty, the contemplation of consciousness and the expectations of art. My first semester I attended a random survey art history 301 designed to flunk students and widdle the 800 person class to 200 by the send of the semester and convince most to major in communication instead. In my late 20s i decided to apply to UT Austin, and for some reason they let me in. It was there i painted a lighthouse and re-rendered my name in the logo of Coca-Cola as my 6th grade art paper mache project. There he attempted to help the students who were prone to graffiti as an extracurricular and show them a formal process for lettering, tagging, graffiti, and the arts as a whole. Thus, I would finish early and head to Mr. Due to the lack of student engagement, they tended to bribe the students with free time if we did our in class work. ![]() In middle school they re-drew the district lines and i was sent to Burnet Middle. Andrews, art became my past-time as a child, hobby as an adolescent, and career choice as a teen. With the inspiration from people like my uncle, who was a painter before he went into the Vietnam War and a Victorian Restoration Specialist Post-War and my fathers friend, an art teacher named Mrs. Mae – I always had the propensity for creating, painting, drawing, building, poetry and music. And the more times I leave, the greater my Love for Texas and Austin and the South grows ever exponentially.ĪoA – When did you realize that you were an artist? The longer I’ve stayed here, the more reasons I find to stay. My Twenties were spent in the Zilker Park area. Throughout college i lived off Riverside and Oltorf and attended ACC Riverside, Northridge, and UT Austin. ![]() In the 70s bis was off the main street of Duval/Burnet that ran through town before Mopac. I grew up in the North West Hills of Walnut Creek Crossing. My mother worked for UT, and thus they met, and accidentally made me post vasectomy. My dad was from a small Dow-Jones town outside of Houston called Angleton, Texas and lived off Guadalupe in an old stage coach house behind what is now Kerby Lane while he was attending UT Austin. Shes a bra- burning hippy born in the 50s to parents who were both in the war and raised during the Depression. My mother moved from Kansas City, Kansas and used to rent out a house in Westlake for $25 a week. AoA – How long have you been in Austin and how did you find your way here? ![]()
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