Pdx subvert
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I’d always wanted to do a lot of different things, to explore all the creative channels that interested me and that I felt I had some talent for. I know one of the biggest reasons that I didn’t go to college to study art is that I rebelled against just being an artist. It wasn’t until I moved to Los Angeles in 1986, that I gradually started painting again. They were six very mixed-up years, but I was doing what I wanted to do.
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I even sang back-up on one rather obscure album. But mainly I focused on singing, most often performing in San Francisco’s cabaret scene. For the next six years, I did almost everything but make art: I designed and made costumes for the Shakespeare Festival I took acting workshops, which I later helped facilitate I taught vocal performance workshops I wrote a lot. Instead, I made almost no art for the next decade. As a teenager, I participated in competitions and exhibitions in all four of the high schools I attended, I did commissioned portraiture, and it was expected that I would go on and study art in college. It was the one place in my life where I could be certain of respect. I got a lot of attention for it, I found some acceptance through it. Shy, overweight, and the perpetual new kid, being “artistic” was my established persona at home and in the world. I’d always been the star art pupil in school.