{"id":192,"date":"2022-01-24T11:55:59","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T16:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd-fundamentals-22\/?p=192"},"modified":"2022-01-30T22:06:06","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T03:06:06","slug":"who-are-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd-fundamentals-22\/kmroyer\/who-are-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Who…are you?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cI hardly know, sir, just at present \u2013 at least I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.\u201d ~ Alice in Wonderland ~ Lewis Carroll<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My name is Karen Royer. I am originally from upstate NY. I grew up with a sheltered New England upbringing but we moved around a lot. I have 5 siblings but only one brother. I generally consider myself to be privileged and a little dense. This gets in the way – a lot. I like to work hard and play hard. I try to behave ethically and morally. I identify as a creative, a maker and a self sufficient, practical artist and have been working professionally since 1988.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once<\/a> a year or so, I update my bubble map. It reminds me of many aspects of who I am and what my goals are. My bubble map is really full for two reasons, 1 \u2013 I\u00a0 have been out of college for more than 30 years and 2 \u2013 I have become confident in my ability to learn new things as I continue to try new things. The bubble map helps me to recognize that my professional choices must include creative opportunities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My inspirational <\/a>process usually goes something like this\u2026I see something interesting or intriguing. I want to know how it works or want to understand it better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I need to experience it in order to understand it. Best way to experience it is to do it. I find inspiration everywhere and take copious pictures. I like to work with materials that are easy to find and ordinary. I want to make them extraordinary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I studied textile making and clothing design in college. I learned folk art painting, sculpting, mold making, 3D modeling, wire weaving, digital painting and vector art, jewelry making while raising 3 children. I learned programming in the early 1980s and continued to pursue various languages and platforms over the years including Flash, action script, web design, Fortran, Java, Javascript, and C++.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I absolutely love modeling in 3D and texturing the results. Digital painting allows me so much more freedom to fix mistakes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the spring of 2022, I intend to work on improving my coding skills. I am primarily interested in continuing to work on making my Millefiori software responsive and useful for a broad range of platforms. Further, I hope my work will help me to fix my webpage to make it more responsive as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n