Greensboro, NC, United States
Biography of Falcon, Senior Partner I don’t see the world with my eyes. I see the world with my emo...
About the artist
Joined In 2010
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About the artist
Joined In 2010
(53 Followers)
Biography of Falcon, Senior Partner
I don’t see the world with my eyes. I see the world with my emotions. I am visually impaired. I suffer from a genetic/environmental disease that has atrophied my irises, and which has taken away my ability to see color, except in near darkness.
Born in rural Connecticut at a time when truck farms stretched across the hills north of New Haven, I have lived a life more closely akin to Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath than to that of a modern person. The eldest of five, the son of an alcoholic, at seven I began what I have described as his “journey into hell,” a reference to the three years I spent working among migrants on a truck farm near the family home. Those brutal three years, framed by my own near-death experience on the farm, opened me to a side of human existence few ever see.
The same year I went to work on the farm, I read Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey. Coupled with my experiences on the farm, these works have shaped my life. At ten I went to work in the labs at Yale, where I remained until I was sixteen. I would eventually earn a PhD in Biblical Theology from Emory University. I attended Yale and Fordham as well. In 1998, I was awarded a Computerworld-Smithsonian Medal for my accomplishmen...
PhD. Emory University, Biblical TheologyMDiv Yale UniversityBA, MA, CCST, Fordham University,
September 2004: Nothing but Nude, The Marshall Gallery, Greensboro NC USA
September 2006: The Face of Woman, Greensboro, NC USA. Sixty 20x30 images of women.
February 1 2008: Centre College (KY USA) a show based on our documentary work. 2500 square feet of photos.
November 2019-April 2020 - Gold Belt Gallery, Durham, NC Abandoned, Series 2
Spring 2021 - The Frame Shop - Abandoned, Series 2
Winter 2023 - Town of Cary, Abandoned, Series 2 - revised