An Introduction

I started this account as a sort of fresh start. I didn't want my old work (The work I did in college/interning) to be set next to the work I do now. I feel they are incompatible. Not to say the old work is bad (some of it is, but some of it is really good), I just wanted a fresh start. From everything. Art and life. And so I did my best to do it. I quit my job, twice, found one I really liked that supported me and let me make art in the downtime, and I took a year off from -any- really creative endeavors.

I hated the time off. I really felt like I was a failure then, and made a lot of bad decisions in that time, and when  I eventually hit rock bottom, I realized all the misconceptions I had, and how I could improve with proper sight. I became a Buddhist, and reinstalled Photoshop. And I must say, that the break was needed. I was so inundated with other people's opinions on art, I had no opinions of my own. I knew how to replicate everyone's style, but had none of my own. I was also too focused on the tech part of photography, and I hated myself for not being able to afford a Mark II, or a full studio to shoot in. All my priorities were wrong.

So consider this account to be a reawakening of sorts. My pen name is derived from my real name, as its just a simple anagram. I feel that it is the perfect representation of what I went through. I'm still the same bits and pieces, but now I've figured out the proper order.

-FGC