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I've been a musician since the age of 10 and have been surrounded by various artists and adventurous spirits my whole life. I've lived in Quebec City (from which I hail), Montreal, New Orleans, Paris, Vancouver and The Bay Area before finally settling in Los Angeles in the early naughts. Through my various musical escapades I've been lucky enough to travel all over the world and meet all manner of personalities and witnessed and experienced myriad of things from the beautiful to the grotesque all of which I consider a blessing.(yes even the really shitty stuff).
While writing songs, composing music, and playing shows is friggin' awesome, it all started to grow stale a little while back and felt I needed some other outlet to tell stories and last year a friend of mine needed photos for her portfolio and since I was around and she had a camera I figured why not? Little did I know I'd fall in love again and I've been at it ever since!

I just want to take a quick moment to address a comment somebody recently messaged on this site, because I think it's important:
I love female nudes, erotica and even on occasion pornography, that's true. But to consider me or my work to be perverse says more about you than it does about me or what I do in my private life. The thing is though you are right btw, it is occasionally perverse and I can be too given the right context. But to feel the need to point that out to me as some kind of objective truth in a character attack would be funny except that it just indicates you're completely missing the point of my, or indeed all art in that it's not real. It has real consequences and can inspire real feelings, cost real money, and ignite real conversations like this one, but the art itself-as its name implies- is not. It is an artifice. One cannot make an edifice out of artifice but one can decide what the materials will be and how the will connect to make the edifice.
So if art isn't real then why is it so powerful, you ask? Because it is the closest thing we have to a filter to the truth. How? Because to turn that dream of an art piece to the reality of its being experienced by others requires it goes through a rigorous process not unlike the scientific method.
Personally I'm more interested in getting to the truth of things no matter how uncomfortable it may make one at first, because that's where the real beauty lives regardless of your beliefs or opinions. Or more accurately, the opinions of others you merely adopted in a successful attempt to avoid thinking for yourself because, let's face it, who has time for that these days right? We constantly make choices as to what's good or bad based on what others think simply because that kind of educated consensus actually helps to make our lives better. But when it comes to art I would argue that this kind of hive-mind statistical bandwagoning is the worst way to approach it. At least in most cases anyway. Instead moving forward I suggest reaching out with your senses and feelings first when experiencing art, make a personal connection with it and once enough time has passed that will help inform your opinions, Instead of the other way around. And if you can't make that personal connection it could mean a number of things from your mood to the fact that it's just crap art, but it'll never be because of the artists sexual preferences anymore than what they had for breakfast the day they created it.

Ok well I guess that's all I have to say about that, for now anyway, If you read this far, thank you for indulging me and feel free to hit me up if you want to work together!

Live well kids!
DrL

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