Welcome to My Salon, Where I Proudly Display my Past Completed Works & Collaborations.

These Two Paintings, 'Bl Man' by the Master Painter, Nicholas M. Raynolds, and 'JMP2' by Master, N. Michelle Tully, are the first two portraits of myself for which I was hired to pose.  They are the beginning of my '10 Master Painter Portrait Series.'

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The Infamous 'Whore Works' Photo, or more appropriately, 'The Fish Picture'( as it is know at Sugar Valley Theatricals).  Taken by the Brilliant photographer, Todd Williams. Being a model I was tasked by Artistic Director of Sugar Valley Theatricals, Bryan Webster with creating an image which would best advertise this play.  Luckily I'd just finished this photo shoot; my first upon returning to America from Paris.  I don't know how much this image represents 'Whore Works' but it is sure is bold, beautiful, and provocative.

The Second Project upon which I Collaborated with Yvonne Ng.  'Clear as Plastic' is probably the most potentially overwhelming work I've ever started.  It all came to life when I rang Yvonne a week after we'd finished the initial run of 'Beneath it All', and I said, 'Lets make our next project about plastic.'  What I love best about this work is that we started out with one concept and switched to an entirely different story line... This image will not be a part of the initial series in this project which is great because it means we have so much more upon which we can elaborate/expand.

'I know you're showing this for something else in Singapore but will you let me premiere it as part of my Moving Beauty Series?'  I was on vacation, doing programming for my first fully self produced week of art (sic. Not vacationing), and I thought, I have to show this work.  So I rang Yvonne Ng, and asked her point blank if we could do it.  This was June 26th, 2009.  At first our composer Yasuhiko Fukuoka said no, but then we all met had a meeting and said, 'YES!'  By July 31st, we'd converted a black box theatre into a multi media Cinema and premiered our work.  Now you see why I love working with Yvonne.

I asked a number of my painter friends if I could present their works in an experiment of mine. The experiment? Converting a black box theatre into an art gallery where I would have live dance and musical performances going on at the same time. My theory for this experiment was, 'That if a picture is worth a thousand words, then music accompanying that picture must create at least a 1001 words and if you add another layer of dance to interpretting that picture further still, maybe you'll end up with 1002 words. So I rented a theatre, found the musicians, hired a dancer (the amazing Dante Puleio) and made it happen all with my Collaborative Partner, Tim Arbon. We called it, 'Beauty in Motion', a title I love but that did not end up sticking because the famous ballerina, Diana Vishneva calls her touring show the same thing (and even though I thought of it first, she is more famous than I am at the moment and so she wins out this time.)  The show went splendidly especially once I created the image from the 2nd shoot I had upon my returning to America.  A photo of me jumping out of the subway at Astor Place taken by the amazing Hal Pocius.

'These Days' by Imani Coppola was the inspiration.

On the day before my birthday, my Collaborative Partner, Tim Arbon said, 'You have to hear this song'; immediately upon finishing listening, I said, 'We have to create a dance theatre piece about this.' He said, 'Okay. What's a dance theatre piece?'  The piece is about two people who are lost living on opposite sides of the world suffering alone though they are going through the same exact thing.  Eventually they cross worlds and inspire one another though they continue to be unaware of each other until in a moment of despair they look into the mirror (which they share on opposite sides of the wall) and recognize each other.  I love it. One day we hope to work with Imani one on one to complete an entire suite to her music.  Here's to.

I was sitting for the artist, Jeremy Hoffeld, having my portrait painted when I said, 'We should make a show; do a performance.'  He said, 'Okay; what did you have in mind?' I said, get someone to stand while you paint and I try to steal the thunder away from you both by putting on Political Theatre of None Sense at the steps of Union Square. Itwas right before I left for Paris (May 1st, 2008 to be precise) when we made it happen and as luck would have it, May 1st, is not just May Day but Worker's Rights day so we had a huge audience.  My favourite part?  When I mummified myself, and started singing songs from the American Classic Song Book in 'White Face'.