_____A catalytic image in my decision to pursue digital art in some way as a career, this was one of my earliest and most profound successes with the medium. While I almost cringe to look at its amaturish presentation now, it was a huge leap forward for me in 2002 - nine years ago at the time of writing. The perspective is bungled and the lighting is disparate - artificial emphasis does the job that color fails to, and imagery is left in the work that breaks-down its own illusion. However, it marks my first successful attempt at photographically super-imposing and morphing the human form - something that would become a big part of many of my works to come. This image was also one of my most successful early attempts to express how I felt at this time in my life - hungry for something, in a mindless and compulsive way - and unable to speak of it, relagating it to the basement boiler-room of my mind. Expressing this angst in such a way eventially helped me to move beyond it, and taught me how helpful that creative expression can be in reaching helth and balance in one's own character.