365 Challenge #270, Curtesy of James Hion
In 2020, a corrective brain surgery was able to put an end to the seizures that had constantly plagued Mitchell for almost his whole life. In physical rehab, Mitchell had to relearn how to walk, talk, and eat. With almost two months spent in the hospital, a significant shift in artistic approach was seizing him.
No longer held down by crippling epileptic seizures, Mitchell feels like a new man. The world, no longer fogged from heavy medication, now is intensely colorful and powerfully vibrant. Mitchell now feels like he is finally experiencing life (and art) through a clean lens. Sounds are clearer, taste is sweeter, and love, more pure.
Life, once dull without clear meaning, now is about defining the self. Art, once a way to fill the emptiness within, now the means to celebrate the experiences of our being…
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Exhibitions, Recognition, & Print Media:
2023:
The Alternative Issue, #6 - Fall 2023, Pamplemousse Magazine
Where Have You Been?, Photoworks SF, San Francisco, CA
Camera Work: Landscape and Architecture, Black Box Gallery, Portland, OR
2022:
Untitled, Photoworks SF, San Francisco, CA
2020:
2020, SFSU Undergraduate Alumni Zine
2019:
2019 Annual Photo Exhibit, Harvey Milk Photo Center, CA