If you are looking for the tech side of me, check out Curious Markings, Co. While my above mentioned position may indicate the classic "working professional aspiring to be an artist" story, it is quite the inverse. Everything I do at Curious Markings, Co. serves to establish a digital workshop for me to produce my works in the medium I am most comfortable — websites and apps.
I thrive in creating all art. On the traditional side — illustrations, poems, comedic performance, and more. I see websites, apps, & technology in general as a way to extend and enhance these mediums, and vice versa.
Why do I call myself psychoSage? To separate my hobbies from paid work — self-employment creates a confusing environment between these things, and the visual design I've created helps me subconsciously keep myself focused. Focused on work when I'm working, focused on play when I'm playing.
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Projects prepended with "psycho" are to remind myself that I am human, being experimental, non-profit, angry, and rebellious. "psycho" is also a slightly pejorative reference to my schizophrenia diagnosis. It is lowercased by design to de-emphasize the passive, long-term, and self-inflicted subjugation of self-deprecation. Holy shit, that was a mouthful. Here, have some soda to wash down that nothing-burger.
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Projects appended with "Sage" are to remind myself while working that I am a producer of value in our capitalist society, being as polished as I can in my work, for-profit, calm, and pragmatic. "Sage" is also a reference to my aspirational practice/way of doing business. Words prefixed to Sage are lowercased by design. Not only to match the 'psycho' lowercasing, but to indicate a commitment to ideology over product or profit.
