Jay Carreon

__________________________BIOGRAPHY:
I was born and raised in the Philippines (except for a two year sojourn as a child in the American South) - that tropical archipelago in the South China Sea . . . a land of monsoon rains, filled with friendly people (mostly Catholicized by Spanish conquistadors) for whom hospitality is almost a religion. I currently live in Los Angeles, California - that movie star-filled City of the Angels with the Mediterranean clime of seemingly eternal sunshine, automobile traffic and heavenly bodies on the Pacific Coast of America.
________________________INSPIRATIONS:
Self-admitted beauty addict who draws his "fix" from many many points on the compass . . . Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood . . . Avedon . . . Fayum portraits . . . irises, lilies, roses . . . Praxiteles . . . deserts, oceans, fire . . . Modigliani . . . "Ekkehardt & Uta" . . . Helmut Newton . . . a lover of sensuousness & sexuality drawn to the ancient erotica of Classical Greece & Rome . . . the explicit statuary of certain Hindu temples and spanning the ages all the way to the fleshly delights found in moving pictures (both feature and not-so-feature) and the advertising of Madison Avenue(s) . . . yet deeply inspired by the Zen of ikeban...

A.A. in Liberal Arts (Minor in Literature) - cum laude, at Santa Monica College