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Here are some portrait studies I’ve done recently.

Perhaps I am secretly a futurist at heart but when I saw the Venus Project I was at awe. I started off by admiring the designs of Jacque Fresco but then realized that there was much more to it than futuristic housing, cities, transportation, etc. His ideas are to change our culture. He has a dream of a world without war, pollution, and crime. He calls for a resource based economy where all natural resources are shared without monetary trade or bartering. All national boundaries would no longer exist and we would live in a society that is shaped by our surrounding environment. We would live with the Earth, not against it. I will admit this sounds like an impossible utopia but ideas have to start somewhere. Every good idea started off as a dream. Let me know what you think.

For some reason I have always loved looking at people’s studios. Just their work space gets me inspired and excited. Anyways my beautiful girlfriend, Ani Alexanian, took some photographs the other night while she so patiently waited for me to finish my work.  We had a date but she was kind enough to wait around for me. This is what she came up with.