Do I want to tell you my life's story?
But, what are my influences in Art?
Or how did I get here? (that's a question for later)
Yes? No? Maybe..
Who am I as an Artist?
This is who I was..
in HS, not very girly girl, but still girl..
My early influences was from Anime & Manga from such series as
Clubs
Outdoors club
Kiwins
Leo CLub
Lion Dance Club
...
No known GSA atm, not to my knowledge..
Galaxy Express 999/Space Pirate Captain Harlock, Macross/Robotech, Key the Metal Idol, Tenchi Muyo, Evangelion… just to name a few from the 90's that was shown on PBS mostly Sci fi anime..
pbs as a reponsed the underground showing unedited anime of the 1960s, in 1980s it started to aired 

Space Pirate Captain Harlock 
Robotech
Instead I went here for 2 years, these are the foundations years before going off into the major, sadly I  stop because of no family support for the arts, and I might of lost interest, didn't like 3d animation and or I really did wanted to get right into traditional 2d animation
was a fail..
This is Oakland Serior High School, we're the Wildcats, I got into the Engneering Acdemy to get into the school then I switched to the Visual Arts Academy Magnet Program (VAAMP) and got out of it because I didn't like the english class I had to take with it..
Afterwards
Fall from a great height.
I didn't go after all..
WORK
Peralta Colleges
Oh, then I tranfered in the Fall 2007
MUSIC!! SF/Bayarea indie 
I went to a lot of shows since NYE of 2006
Boyskout, it was their last show in SF, then they moved on to Brooklyn
Oh! Hey Photography!
Concert Photography maybe??
this is what I'm currently reading.. on & off

If I do finish I'll be stuck on vol. 9, Tokyo Pop is a whole other story..
This is the 1st's Gundam manga with a female protagonist
1
2
3
ed, on & off
our team was the Engineering Academy in 1998?, we lost but won most spirited
This picture does not reference those times
year
Women's Studies maybe??
then one summer..
BAAU
Bay Area Artist Unite
ResLife
Sketchbooks from these times are filled with assignments, people's heads, places in transit(via bart/bus, etc), dragons, demons, etc..
I've always admired Yoshitaka Amano's works stylistically
Vampire Hunter D
Final Fantasy
etc
Artist/+other influences..
Hourou Musuko / Wandering Son

If this existed back in the day, it would of solved a lot of problems for me about gender, sexuality, etc.. coming out vise as gender queer, a person who doesn't care for either genders..
Alison Bechdel Fun Home
dykestowatchoutfor.com
Poetry
just a thought after my 1st photography class
(Spring 2008)
Ecole du Ciel, roughly translate as school of the stars/heaven
I wanted to be an Animator when I was young.. so I started to draw for people.. mostly Sailor moon, Dragon Ball Z & butchered Sanrio Characters and a lot of fan art of other anime/game characters..
books
Muddy Mondays which is no more..
Buddy Wakefield
Andrea Gibson
Tara Hardy
Sonya Renee Taylor
Catherine Opie
schande
Excuses For Skipping
dyspecific
Make Me
Jerry Uelsmann
Hung Liu
for the next 3 year
Then I got laid off because business was getting shitty for this insurance guy..
After that I went back to school, took the classes I needed to transfer
art wise I did Ceramics
and Watercolors..
watercolors stuck with me after all these years..
I found out about this group while I was going to the Academy of Art, but only recently I've been active since 2006. We have a meet ups in japan town, great mall, to draw, hang out, etc, we go to conventions, have a bbq every summer, etc..
<- read that way
illustrated by Mikimoto Haruhiko who is the writer/artist also char. designer for The Super Dimension Fortress Macross.
magic!
fire!
My drawings still look kinda like anime and not..

I was also into gaming(mostly single player rpg or mmorpg)..
While studying at Laney college, I was reading a book for fun and thought maybe I could go towards a Women's Studies major or double major with Art?
Then I discovered
I went to a lot of shows.. not so much now since the past 2 summers (study abroad/summer classes) but I'll still make it out to see some of my favorite SF/bayarea bands, like Excuses For Skipping, Schande.. dyspecific & Make Me are no longer bands..
scene..
Other fav. bands in the bayarea

Dreamdate
Social Studies
The Bruises
Chairman Wow
The Splinters
Mister Loveless
Bam!Bam!
All My Pretty Ones
minipop
I work there for the past 3 years, I greatful for the 1st year there, one for the amazing staff I had
the next 2 years not so much.. why was this year so good? I was the living group advisor for my building Madrone, the Art Colony..
I was getting into Photography
painting
poetry
and Take Back the Night all in the same year and more..
I meet Catherine Opie at her New York show "girlfriend"

"Exploring lesbian identity, Catherine Opie delves into her archive of unprinted black-and-white images of girlfriends to uncover portraits that complement her recent color photographs of butch-dykes, both famous and unknown. Shot from the heart, Opie’s powerful images include Madonna and Angelina Jolie’s ex-girlfriend Jenny Shimizu in black leather boots on a white bed..."
ref: http://flavorwire.com/79697/photo-gallery-catherine-opies-girlfriends/
I like this quote from an Interview with Jenny Shimizu

"When my UCLA students ask me if art can really create true political change, I say, “Well, I don’t think it can create change, but representation creates change."
ref: http://www.openingceremony.us/entry.asp?pid=1082
Graphic Memoir/Novel..
This is a autobiographical "tragicomic" chronicling her childhood and the years before and after her father's death.
bio
"Known for paintings drawn from Chinese historical photography, Hung Liu’s works focus on what she calls the “mythic poses” that underlay the photographic surfaces of history. Representing such elemental human activities as laboring, eating, journeying, leaping, fighting, dreaming, and carrying one’s burden, these “mythic poses” come from particular historical circumstances, but seem epic, trans-historical, and allegorical in the her paintings. With an overlay of traditional Chinese birds, flowers, insects, dragons, and – most recently – stylized human figures, Liu offers her subjects artistic evidence of their own rich heritage – as if to remind or comfort them."

ref: http://www.kelliu.com
I love Jerry Uelsmann's work. Period, and seen some of his & his wife Maggie work in are past SF trip at the 49 Geary St. Mondernbook.
"Using multiple negatives to produce his surreal, dreamlike photographs, Jerry Uelsmann has developed a singular artistic vision which has carried him through a nearly 50 year artistic career. 
Firmly entrenched in his traditional darkroom practices, Uelsmann continues to produce magical and thought-provoking imagery without the help of modern computer-base techniques.  Uelsmann says, “There’s an element of alchemy that I sense in the darkroom that I would never ever sense in front of a computer. There’s a technological well that is behind the screen that is beyond any comprehension for me.  It’s not particularly mystical – it’s just technical.  In the darkroom it feels much more spiritual.”
Uelsmann’s works are featured in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the International Museum of Photography at the George Eastman House, the Victoria an Albert Museum in London, the Bibliotheque National in Paris, the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo, and the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, among many others."
ref: http://www.modernbook.com/jerryuelsmann.htm
Other artist..
Duane Michals
Diane Arbus
Fred Boissonnas (Greece, 1900s)

Chris Pureka - music

Community art work? maybe?

My new love printmaking..

Grad School??

Bayarea? APIQWTC, Asian queer community I could be apart after humboldt..
"While this period saw a boom in new releases of both TV series and feature-length anime films in Japan, it wasn't until a decade later that U.S. cable and satellite began to pick them up. Today, anime fans the world over are familiar with titles such as: Urusei Yatsura -- (popular translation is Those Annoying Aliens, though we have heard it described more floridly by a Japanese animator as "Those Noisy People from Outer Space Whom You Wouldn't Want Living Next Door"); Lensman; Project A-Ko; Megazone 23; Ranma; Area 88; Dirty Pair; Bubblegum Crisis; Akira; and Maison Ikkoku, to name just a handful. Japanese anime is also readily available on laser-disc or video."

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ref: http://www.netcomuk.co.uk/~mdownes/anime.html
"Transsexuality is often used in manga for laughs or escapism, but Wandering Son is one of the few manga I've read that takes its subject matter seriously. Shimura Takako is known for drawing LGBT-friendly manga, and... in Wandering Son she sympathetically and subtly depicts two young people who are transsexuals, or at least have transsexual leanings.... It's a tasteful psychological portrait, with a lot of unexpected little meanders and detours... and a pleasant lack of either over-the-top tortured drama or polemic speeches about the subject matter. Just wandering along the road of adolescence, watching our heroes discover themselves, is fascinating enough. Recommended." – Jason Thompson, Otaku USA
figure modeling
figure drawing
clothed figure drawing
still life
storyboarding
perspective
digital
imaging