Carl Garcia

I am a visual artist exploring the connections between language, music, memory, and image.

My path has never been a straight one. I worked my way through school, raised a family while building a career in architecture and later technology, started at Apple Inc., and earned U.S. patents with both Apple Inc. and GE Digital. Along the way, I lived between cultures, disciplines, and different ways of seeing the world. Those experiences sparked a lasting curiosity about how ideas, emotions, and memories can change form while remaining recognizable. That curiosity eventually led me to songwriting later in life.

I draw and paint, but my artwork often begins with original songs. From those songs, I develop visual systems that transform lyrics into networks, landscapes, symbolic forms, seasonal narratives, and other imagined worlds. Individual lines can become standalone visual pieces, while entire songs evolve into larger compositions that reveal patterns, relationships, and structures hidden within the music.

At the center of my work is a simple question: What survives transformation? Through song, image, and visual language, I explore how memory, emotion, and meaning can move across different forms of expression while remaining deeply...

AA, Diablo Valley College
BA, Saint Mary's College of California

Certifications:
Software Engineering, UC Santa Cruz
User Interface Design, Cornell University
Digital Transformation, Standford University