From the beginning my passion was music. Listening to music gave me a sense of joy like none other. And when I discovered singing in a choir in Oxford in my 50s, I was in heaven.
I’m interested in cartooning in troubled times. My background is in Fine Arts (printmaking and painting) and Computer science, specifically computers and language. I grew up happily in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania living a sheltered life in the suburbs which presented almost no threatening situations or social challenges. I went to a State University in Pennsylvania and met mostly middle class people like myself. Listened to lots of music, did lots of drawing, painting and printmaking, experimented with hallucinogenics (Mary Jane+) and tried to understand who I was and what I was supposed to be doing on earth. I finished a degree in fine arts with no immediate prospects, so went to graduate school in New York City where life at 20 began.
Lockdown fun : me playing ‘Friday I’m in Love’ with the OUP ukulele band, Ohuki
More lockdown recordings on Ohuki Sound Cloud