Why hello! It’s been nearly 9 months since my last blog post. And boy do I apologize. Let me tell you though….it is a very difficult process to grow a salon business and clientel PLUS pursue artistic endeavors. So this past year, I chose to grow my business, in hopes to create a larger cash flow for artistic expression.

Let me preface this whole blog post with this…art is a desire I constantly crave. And when I’m not creating my photographic projects, I’m quite depressed. These days digital art is becoming quite prominent. Which is GREAT! Digital art opens up a whole new outlet of artistic expression. I’m a definite fan of having outlets!! However, the cleanliness and realness possible in the digital art world is clouding what people spend days and months creating with their own hands.

With numerous hairdressing competitions and thousands of marketing ads, digital photography is always stated as ‘neither encouraged nor discouraged’. Great. But what these collection people aren’t telling you is what is what EXACTLY! I’m not discrediting anyones portfolio, merely bringing to light that if the photos are not shot by film, you really have no idea what is real and what has been digitally manipulated.

With me revisiting my roots of creative avant garde hairdressing and story-telling photo series, I’m going to be creating a new collection, inspired by my avant garde past and influenced with photographic digital manipulation. It is my goal to show you ‘realistic’ photos that have indeed been built by me, developed by me, with the addition of technology to step up the ‘unrealness’ of the collection.

I would love ANY and ALL comments along the way. Comments about digital manipulation, thoughts of the progression/digression of hairdressing in the world of consumers, ads and manufacturing companies, photo competitions….etc. Your thoughts are what I want to discuss!

So I bring you Day 1 of the building process. . . . .