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Welcome to Satyrsight. Tonight is the last full lunar eclipse of the decade and this is the official launch of my website. I thought it somehow appropriate. (I had hoped to launch on my favorite day of the year, Half-price Chocolate day, also known as the day after Valentine’s, but that didn’t quite happen.)

Here I have gathered what amounts to most of my portfolio, primarily as a Costume Designer. There are also masks, artwork, photographs and choreography stills, as well as my resume. Soon to be added, clips from performances of my work, choreography and performance art. And occasionally I will add to the blogosphere, though I will keep it to a minimum; happenings and musings as they occur or as they occur to me...

And so after months of work, photo scanning and editing, tutorials with my web designer, Rob and many false starts and restarts (my aversion to technology), here it is. Text to be proofed, photos to be resized, video to be digitalized ...this will be a work in progress for sometime and will always be growing as long as I am creating...something

2/20/08




		Age 2


		About Me

	I was raised in a little town in upstate New York...way upstate, just south of Canada in the sleepy mining community of Gouverneur. We lived in an old country farmhouse outside town; picturesque, desolate, bitter cold in the winter, which often lasted from late October to late March. I was the youngest of three, my Mom, a homemaker and painter. My dad taught at the local high school and we spent summers in the Adirondack mountains in a rustic lake cottage, when not traveling New England at summer wrestling camps where he coached. Growing up in a culturally barren part of New York State, I non-the-less developed an appreciation for painting and art from my Mom. We




		Age 15


	traveled a lot for sporting events. My sister and brother are nine and seven years older respectively, it was often just me and Mom, while Dad coached. She taught me about art, took me to museums and was my first art teacher. Living a distance from the nearest

neighbors, extra-curricular after school was my social life. I spent a lot of time alone wandering pine shrouded fields and country roads; and reading, sitting cross-legged on the dock next to the lake. I was not the athlete of my genetic expectations, but I tried track and cross-country, despite my real devotion to art, theatre and music. Though the writing was on the wall, I still hoped to study and become the paleontologist I had always wanted to be.
I attended the State University of New York at


	as Jud in Oklahoma

Geneseo, an idyllic town in New York wine country that could have been plucked from colonial Massachusetts. I tried several majors, starting with geology, before finally accepting that math would always confound me. I took a theatre class and found home amongst dancers, designers and actors in a tiny, dynamic and artistically nurturing department where everyone had to do a little of everything. Something that fostered appreciation and support of each other’s craft and something that I will always carry with me. Eventually I graduated with a BA in theatre with a concentration in costume design, a minor in studio art and a minor in dance and far more elective credits than I knew what to do with. And I finally found my inner athlete through modern dance.

Bright-eyed and eager, I spent one last summer waiting tables at resorts in the Thousand islands on the St. Lawrence River and started grad school at another SUNY university, which turned out to be a.... poor choice. I transferred to a state university in Illinois which was...also not a great experience. But the silver-lining of grad school is; I met George there.

Age 25

You and Me publicity shot from Dance of Love, an AIDS Benefit

1989

George and I

a press release for Dance of Love: an AIDS Benefit

Opening Night on Broadway (George’s)

After moving to Bloomington, Indiana (also an idyllic college town) and several years in retail purgatory while writing a surreal thesis document, I got my MFA. After a time, I settled into the vibrant arts community of Bloomington dabbling in performance art and choreography, occasionally designing costumes wherever the work appeared.

Oh, and for the record, Antoinette, I’m not Jim Moore. Sorry Jim. Seating chart for the camera operators?!

Carnivale Provincetown 2005 80 degrees and 3 miles on hooves jkl

Pride 2000

Carnivale Provincetown 80 degree sunshine,
3 miles in hooves.

I took the plunge as a freelance designer a few years ago, designing in Bloomington, other cities in Indiana and a few amazing jobs in Chicago, feast...and famine. Satyrsight is the... oeuvre of my work up to now.

2/29/08


	Artists


	The artist that created and influenced me most. My Mom


	I have always been influenced by other artists. These are the artists that inform and inspire my own work. I love Egyptian, Greek and Roman art, Nouveau and Deco, Expressionism and Post-Expressionism...To varied degrees I find them all a bit, dark, subversive, visceral, sensual, intense, raw...