Always one to give into temptation I ended up studying photography. I learned to love the photographic image and the chemical aroma of the darkroom, but I was always an illustrator and I scratched and scribbled and painted on my photography, I pulled apart enlarges, painted on the negatives, cross processed, and cut and pasted I was in love with the whole process and of course I eventually scanned one of my images and opened it up into photoshop and my working method took on another dimension, for me this was the most intiuitive workspace I had found to date.

Japi Honoo is a subterranean, rushing stream, invisible to the eyes of those who dont' dare put their ears to the ground to feel its vibrations. She gushes from darkness, merging crystal clear and muddy waters. She's pure creative energy pulsing in the veins of existence and flowing through ocean of intense feelings she is plunged in. Sometimes her underground power bursts out all of a sudden and breaks the deceptive surface of ordinary everyday life.