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Ian
My full name is Ian P. Jones II, Ian Jones just doesn't cut it
for me. I hail from the Bronx, I am an art student attending Fiorello
H. LaGuardia High School, and this is my senior year. In February,
I was a part of the senior art show exhibiting a sample of my art
done on my computer. Fortune followed me into March where I was
not only an exhibitor in the senior photography show, but I was
able to cocurate it as well. I have been a published illustrator
for the teen publication New Youth Communications.
Now is the time I should mention that photography has been my passion
for a little over five years. I can't draw as well as I wish I did,
so naturally I adopted photography as my forte and I have done graphic
design for two years so far. Silk screening is in the process of
being one of my other artistic pursuits. While we are on the subject,
I would also like to learn how to play the guitar, and maybe even
the piano (again). Music has always been my safety blanket but I've
never really been interested in playing it until now. I did play
the steel drums for a time, but playing an instrument you don't
like is the same as marrying someone you don't love unconditionally.
I hope to attend either The Cooper Union or The School of Visual
Arts (I'm still waiting to hear from these schools) and I will be
majoring in photography. Digital photography is my personal preference
but there is something alluring about using a standard 35mm camera.
The motion picture is one of the world's greatest inventions. In
my opinion, this medium of self-expression is one of the most effective,
especially in the present, to send a message of any kind to the
masses.
I'm pursuing a career in advertising, photojournalism, and maybe
web design. One thing that is really unnerving to me is that there
isn't enough love in the world and things are just getting worse.
I'm the person who is going to save it.
©
2003 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
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