13 years ago in San Francisco, I woke up from a coma after experiencing a TBI. A traumatic brain injury.

The Story 

13 years on 1/21/2009  in San Francisco I died. For three and a half minutes from a traumatic brain injury. At least that is what they tell me. On the way to the hospital, I flatlined and they brought me back.

Back then I was deep in my addiction, ripping and running and selling anything that made me a buck, not caring about anybody else for myself My roommates at the time were the same, they came into my room on false prentices struck me with a hammer & robbed me of all my possessions & left me to die.  after a 12-day coma Woke up with the right side of my body paralyzed. also, I had to learn to speak, spell even, and walk again. Unfortunately, my right-hand did never come back. It’s mostly useless, except for holding things and using one finger to hold down keyboard shortcuts on Photoshop.

13 years later I've been sober for 8 years, got my AA in addiction studies, and I'm an addiction counselor IRL. Looking back, I cannot believe how much my life has changed, and how grateful I am to still be creative and be able to do art in photography every single day and to be an NFT artist. I was already an artist/photographer, and this still did not stop me. the only difference is  I am just a one-handed/left-handed photographer/ NFT artist now. 

the art you see here is reflection of my ability to heal and create more intensely than ever. I have a theory, being hurt in the left-hand side of the brain flooded the right-hand side of my brain with chemicals that had nowhere else to go., giving me super power of super creativity


neural divergent artistry 

Very special augmented reality active NFT made with https://artivive.com/ 

Did you see the augmented reality nature of this piece of art and experience the entirety of it you will need the Artivive app on your phone 

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/artivive/id1188737494

Do you have this app you can point your phone at the screen and experience the animation and hear the music that I have created this amazingly unique piece of art 

Neural in Augmentation

Neural in Augmentation

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