I left the idea being a conventional artist around the same time I left high school. I felt that to be an artist meant to give up function in the name of fashion. Function has always served too much of a purpose for me to sacrifice it for fashion. In fact, by that point I had come under the impression that the two were inverses of each-other. As time moved on I found myself reconsidering this point: It is so difficult some something to be considered functional at all in this world for it not to be art. Further more, it is increasingly considered un-functioning if it is not at very least aesthetically pleasing.
This was a sort of epiphany that came about with my obsession with computers. Ever since I was a wee little Sandy, I've been infatuated with what they could do. Even at a young age I would try to squeeze every ounce of entertainment I could out of my Apple LC-III, running from Kid-Pix to playing with my system-preferences. By around 14 I was fiddling with programming, teaching myself the very basics and in high school, I finally got the chance to take courses based entirely around it.
I began to learn the complexities and subtleties involved in even the most basic of operations, the thought and creativity that went into them. I developed a philosophy that regarded these as an art in itself, the many levels of design that went into a program or website that the typical end user never even gets to see.
Already allowing a complex blend of function and fashion, web design is of especial interest to me in that the front end, what the user sees, is every bit as important as what they don't. The two parts must not only work well, but work well together requiring the entire undertaking a high level of synchronization.
That's my "art" in a nutshell, but I can't speak of it without one last thing: Progress. Advancement and evolution are essential to me, just as technology advances, so does art, perhaps even more rapidly. In my mind, the best way to advance is to test bounds, push them. Every project I undertake I try to test new things, and branch out. With each test new concepts come forward. I like to think that everything I do is a test of one kind or another, so whatever you read here, just remember: