if you’re on my site [or more notably this page...] then you likely have things you ‘want’ or even ‘need’ to know about me. there are also some things that i want you to know as well.

don’t worry, i’m not going to go on about how my favorite color is white, that i was born a sagittarius, or tell you that ‘long walks on the beach’ sound nice. [not that i have any beaches to test such a theory on~]

though i might point out such things as my personal fondness for lowercase letters, and how i write this way on almost any occasion that doesn’t cause issue. in other words; if given the chance to be improper, i don’t care how proper your nouns may be. i know, how rebellious of me right?

i wonder if you’re already having second thoughts on clicking a link titled “about” ever again. i guess i could have just written a small paragraph saying “i’m dedicated to the lucrative ingenuity that will lead to new-found satisfaction and stature among your peers and partners” and left it at that, but i’d really prefer to leave that sort of “about” page to the people who insist on sounding so professional all the time that they end up developing a phobia that their words may ever sound like a human consciousness is behind them.

i think clicking on “about” should feel more like a conversation- speaking of, where are my manners. why hello there, how are you? fantastic. my name is lee.

yes, lee. the unofficial middle name of the u.s. has managed to become my first. my middle name is jay; which being as equally short as my first, and phonetically no different than the letter now leaves you wondering why i bother abbreviating my name at all. also, you now have everything you need to steal my identity, except of course for my beloved spider-man shirt and my super tiny handwriting.

anyway… i believe that “who a person is” is more pertinent than where they come from.  so even if it helps you understand things a little better, i’m holding off on the prelude of the story and jumping right into the plot for now. 

– having always been a guy who looked at the world and wanted to pull things out of it; lee saw more than just black when he closed his eyes. he’s been called many things in his life, but the one reaching his ears the most was the word “artist”. as long as he’s been able to remember, he’s spent most of his life replicating and creating new things based on the world he saw; never expecting much more out of it than personal enjoyment. that all changed the day he needed to make a living of his own… now faced with the challenge of turning passion into profession, he must battle against both supply and demand in a not-so-epic tale of one man’s career. –

so you see; i’m just a guy who’s dedicated my life to art, my education to design, my profession to both, and is looking for work.

i’m originally from louisville; though my family moved a few minutes north of the river and into indiana when i was fairly young. i’m 27 now, and have continued to live here ever since. needless to say, i live in something of a smaller town than louisville, but it has allowed me the ability to surround myself with the trees and lakes i so rarely got to see when i lived next to the train tracks in kentucky. it’s been a few years since i graduated with two associate’s degrees and began work professionally before attaining either. i continue to do so, and my work has afforded a number of awards, plenty of fond memories, as well as recognition and opportunities for which i am very grateful for.

of less relevance-  i’m informally formal, a perfectionist, competitive, and relentlessly honest.

i don’t want to ramble on much further, so let’s consider this the end of our first conversation, and we’ll get to the second one on your terms.