Jaxun - Featured Artist - Statement

Jaxun - Artist's Statement

"There will be no greater adventure in my life than this journey.
I have begun to explore the sources of my divinity. My art is
my kinetic recollections of that Creative Fire, images of energy
and light representing my own connection with Source at levels
I will never completely understand. The spark that forged this
space has steadily grown into a flame that threatens to engulf
everything "ordinary" in my life. I feel the distinctions between
the ordinary and sacred moments melting away." -- jaxun, 1.23.97

Born in 1970, digital artist Jack Riggen, a long-time resident of
Northern California, represents a new breed of emerging artists
who have cut their creative teeth using a computer as their
primary medium. With no significant artistic training or
education (but plenty of computer savvy), jaxun began "pushing
pixels" in 1993 using an IBM-compatible personal computer
and a pressure-sensitive "graphics tablet."

As a computer graphics hobbyist, jaxun has continued to publish
an exhibit of his 200+ works on the World Wide Web, where
thousands of visitors have been able to peruse his art since
1994. In mid-1997, jaxun began considering the pursuit of a fine
art career, and has since been developing a portfolio
representing a consistent body of unique abstract images to
present to galleries and private collectors. Completion of a fine
art degree and continued self-publication are among jaxun's
immediate goals as an artist.

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Hardware

486/66 with 32 megs of RAM and 3 MB video card
Pentium 133 with 64 megs of RAM and 2 MB video card
Wacom SD-510C graphics tablet

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Software

Metacreations (aka Fractal Design) Painter 3.1 and 4.0

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