Many Changes

Throughout my entire life there has been a constant "theme" if you will, of change, personal change, financial change, and philosophical change.

In many ways my childhood was one of dichotomies: growing up in a family where one parent had a college degree in Art and another had a high school degree and worked as a manual laborer.

This is only one example but as my life went on I became more and more aware of the changes that were occurring in terms of my personal ideology.

Considering who I am now it's very ironic who I was when I was a child and how I developed and changed through high school.

As a child I was very conservative, especially in terms of money. My dream was to become very, very rich.

As time went on my views changed and my ideas of what I wanted to do with my life changed dramatically. My sister influenced my greatly in terms of my life choices. As I became older I wanted to emulate her, as she was older and "cool". Her interest in science, especially the ocean, rubbed off on me and I became infatuated with marine biology, which was the field in which I wanted to become involved in.

Soon after that my best friend, Chris, became very interested in computers, ironically, because he was influenced by his siblings. In some way I felt that I wanted to also go into computers and became interested in computer science when high school started and planned on going to college for computer science, I even began taking classes in the subject such as programming and HTML.

At some point in High School I became aware of the artistic side of my personality, which was also the point when I became very politically involved based on the influence of another friend who argued in favor of Socialism, which I have since adhered to as my political ideal.

Soon I was being greatly influenced by teachers and peers alike in terms of the direction I wanted to take in art.

Art soon became my entire focus, art in terms of visual art but also in terms of music.

During middle school I had taken up the violin for three years and it was a catalyst into other musical ideas and areas that I would later explore with other instruments.

In some ways I feel like the entirety of my life has been a circle in which my mother, a graduate in art, ultimately influenced me to pursue art as my life's work, even if I wasn't aware of it until much later.