I'm a former experimental/fine-art filmmaker/animator, screenwriter, and technical/scientific writer. I have an MFA degree in film production (U. Southern California) and an MSc degree in neuroscience (U. British Columbia). As an INTJ personality, my strength is introverted intuition; I'm now an intuitive painter. I create Surrealist Symbolist paintings, where the spontaneous figurative images often produce a kind of cinematic narrative with unexpected meanings and layers of ambiguity that make people think and feel beyond their conventional assumptions. Six paintings have been sold (numbers 16, 37, 87, 91, 105, and 108). I had one curated solo exhibition and two juried group exhibitions. See my gallery in a nicer layout on *Flickrock.*

~ Filmmaker C.V.

~ 1998 fine-art film now playing on Flickr: "Transfigured" 5 min.

~ 2003 unique hyperlapse film now playing on Flickr: "Tran Scan" 8 min.

~ 2025 photo book: Preview on Blurb (147 paintings, hardcover).

Original paintings: $300CAD (Canadian dollars; $100CAD for small).

Image licenses: FREE if attributed and not altered.

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"While art movements have tended historically to be about the beauty or quality of the object produced, Surrealism produces art as a means rather than an end. It differs from standard avant-gardes in its refusal of originality and newness for their own sake. The [standard] avant-garde pushes the boundaries of aesthetics toward ever renewed expressive forms; Surrealism tends instead to use forms, new or traditional, as tools with which to express a particular spirit. This spirit is above all one of dissidence and defiance, subtended by a belief in the inexhaustible capacity for wonder that resides in each of us, here and now."

-- Mark Polizzotti, "Why Surrealism Matters", 2024, Yale University Press.