Codename: Windwall

Why Windwall? For years, I have felt like I've been running against the wind. At first, I would let it get me down. After so long, I developed thick skin and a wall of resistance. So, the name, windwall.

I'm 28 and I'm searching. I work full time in the retail industry for a major and well known retailer, I'd rather not say which as I don't want them knowing that I hate my job. I'm tired of the surperficiality that I see everyday and I'm ready for a change in career and searching for more meaning. For now, I'll play the game.

I started community college classes at night this Fall and I'm studying literature and taking some journalism classes. I'm fascinated by the independent movement that's happening in art and music and clothing. I think the movement symbolizes how I feel about our advertising driven society and the search for originality and away from mass produced clothes and products. I hope to discover independent artists and businesspeople and write about them, contributing to Wikipedia and developing my writing skills. Eventually, I want to start my own independent magazine about funky and interesting clothes, art, and music.

I won't be updating Wikipedia much as I've got a busy schedule. But after classes or before work, I will contribute and refine my writing skills.

These favorites keep me going:

One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.
—Oscar Wilde

All art requires courage.
—Anne Tucker

I shut my eyes in order to see.
—Paul Gauguin

In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
—Elie Wiesel

Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.
—Friedrich Nietzsche

• Environmental Movement in Art
• Indie Scene