:: Surrealist in search of Muse

NYC Resident – 6’4” – 225lbs.

As my non de plume, indicates; I’m a paradox wrapped in mystery, for each part of my personality there is an equal & completely contradictory aspect; these are just a few of the inconsistencies that makeup who I am. What divinity has forged from ether:

- I'm both gregarious & shy.
- I'm outgoing & introverted.
- I'm a PC yet I live in a Mac World.
- I'm extremely verbal yet functionally illiterate.
- I'm a hopeless romantic yet a pragmatist.
- I live in a world of fantasy yet see things as they truly are.
- I see life thru only positives, yet I mistrust happiness.
- I don't do casual very well, I fall in Like easily, yet true Love & Commitment takes time.
- I am well versed in world affairs yet I don't read and get most of my knowledge thru TV.
- I'm stimulated by intelligence yet I experience life only thru sight & touch.
- I'm aggressive and yet meek.
- I'm forceful yet always require the female to advance the relationship further.
- I'm sexually adventuristic yet fearlessly monogamist.
- I'm captivated by women who possess a sense of style, yet I wear jeans.
- I'm sexually engrossed by the looks of middle Europeans yet I habitually date the California girl.
- Tall women enchant me, yet I believe that only short women can be sexy.
- Within the last two years I have dated a woman who is 23 and another who is 61.
- I'm a feminist yet believe in chivalry.
- I find that I'm now in a place, where there is no longer shades of grey or degrees of honesty you're either truthful or not yet I have no problem dating a married women (as long as her partner is aware of her activities).
- I'm submissive & Dominant.
- I admire the Jewish culture yet I'm the quintessential WASP.
- If I were able to choose, I would prefer to be reincarnated as a woman and yet I'm not attracted to men.
- I'm a great society Democrat, yet I understand that business must be left to its own resources.
- I'm a staunch advocate in a woman's right of self determination yet I acknowledge that the extermination of any virus is indeed murder.
- I love Ballet yet I played football thru collage.
- I'm self assured & have self-esteem problems.
- My life for 20 years was Broadway Theater yet I haven't been to a paid production in 15.
- I love adventure yet never leave Manhattan.
- I seek out the architecture of our past yet I live in the modern world.
- I can express my thoughts clearly on paper yet I'm not verbal in person and often a disappointment.
- Photography is my passion yet I haven't looked at or printed any photographs I've taken this year.
- I love being by myself, walking the streets & taking photographs yet loneliness is overwhelming me.
- I'm sophisticated yet often act child like.
- I'm an anarchist yet believe in structure.
- I'm subversive yet a dogmatist.
- I poses a great belief in a power beyond ourselves yet I appore religion.
- I'm seeking humanity, not perfection...

I'm equal parts of Light & Dark, in which neither side prevails!

I am an Enigma, Creative, Romantic Inquisitive, and Compassionate

Now for the David Copperfield kind of crap

n real Lyf, I’m in state of total flux while I've been a technologist primarily working with artists / photographers developing Internet strategies. I'm now taking the plunge and pursuing a life as a Photographer (do I hear midlife crises); which I’ve wanted to do from birth.

I’m from Arizona but have lived in NYC for 30 years (their is a sense of openness / freedom to the West the I still miss) but I'm a New Yorker. I have a Masters in Arts Management. Came to NY to work in Theatre and if you believe in this sort of thing I’m Sagittarian.

I enjoy film's (all types), going to uptown museums (MOMA, Whitney), West 20’s / Dumbo / Williamsburg galleries. Walking anywhere especially after a fresh snowfall, the fall leaves are at their peak, or a white sand beach. I’m a politically active Great Society Democrat.

I’m dyslexic, so with the exception of the NY Times and technical books, which I have to, I don’t read. I haven’t read a book for pleasure in years but I do occasionally listen to book on tape. Exclusively nonfiction, most offend in the political or historical genre.

My ideal day is Starbucks for coffee & reading the paper then exploring the city taking photographs of whatever I come across.

Listening, compassion for the way other people feel & weighing both sides of an issue (even if I totally disagree with their opinion).

I wish I had an original answer but my intelligence, eyes & smile.

Favorite Artists: Rene Magritte / Mark Rothko
Favorite Painting: Lovers (Any of the four versions) - Rene Magritte
Most respected painting: "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" - Pablo Picasso
Favorite Photographer: Robert Frank; Close Second - Helmut Newton / Robert Mapplethorpe / Dian Arbus / Weegee
Favorite Photograph: La Poupée (cropped version) - Hans Bellmer
Favorite Lifetime Body of Work: The Doll - Hans Bellmer
Favorite Book: "Time and Again" - Jack Finney & "Catcher in the Rye" - J. D. Salinger
Favorite Line from a Book or Play: “When playing with windmills there huge arms could swing round and cast you down into the mire… or up into the” - Cyrano de Bergerac
Favorite Quote (General): "Some people see things as they are and say why? I dream things that never were and say why not?" Robert Kennedy
Favorite Quote (Business): "No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public." - Henry Mencken
Favorite Composer Living: Steven Sondheim
Favorite Composer Dead: Aaron Copland
Favorite Musical: Follies – Steven Sondheim
Favorite Sensuous Move: “The Pillow Book”” -– Peter Greenaway
Favorite Album to have sex while it's playing: “The Downward Spiral” - Nine Inch Nails
What takes up the most room on my iPod: Beth Orton, Tori Amos, Alanis Morissette, Sarah McLachlan, Phil Collins, Tom Waits, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Artists from this Century: Regina Spektor, A Fine Frenzy, Joss Stone
Favorite Sensuous Song: “Blonde”” - Guesch Patti

My Camera
My Imagination & Creativity
My Starbucks card

I know that it was supposed to be six but I’m a simple person & it doesn’t make since to list my camera three time.

I don't think I only perceive beauty but If I had an answer then it would be my

This is more my philosophy to life than a self-summery but as an artist it is an ever present part of my everyday life…

While I can only truly be seduced thru my ears, I experience all that life has to offer, from visual and tactile stimulus.

I’m a child of the Surrealist movement; In order to reach truth, whether it is in life or base sexual activity, one needs to push boundaries. An individual will only find fulfillment, when you stripping away all defense mechanisms and face the precipice of the unknown.

Once laid bare, in the absence of all control exercised by reason, you will reunite the conscious & unconscious, so completely, the world of dream & fantasy will be joined with the rational world creating an intensity & absolute truth that cannot be found any other way.

This Surreality is what I strive to achieve.

My life is a cerebral response to a visceral activity, in a pursuit of the total unification of Mind, Body, and Spirit! It is an attempt to touch a force that is beyond us.

Walking the streets in pursuit of something that can only be described thru an image...

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When the beautiful princess kissed the frog, he turned into a handsome prince? and they lived happily ever after; yet that is not how this story goes? for as you see, I am still a frog... If you think you’re the true empress and the rest were only imitations.

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