About the Artist  

Jason always had an interest in photography, recalling how he played with his mother’s Nikon in the family’s backyard, asking her how to focus. However, it wasn’t until he was in his mid-twenties that he was gifted his first camera. He was hooked, so much that every free minute was devoted to learning. He would ramble about the United States photographing the awe-inspiring natural world. Nature and his love of photography became his solace when times were challenging in his life.

A more sensible and stable career was encouraged within his family, which led him to a career as a mechanical engineer and later to gain an MBA while working. His academic pursuits put a pause on his creative endeavors outside the workplace for a year and a half, but after graduation he immediately returned to his love of photography, only this time while traveling abroad. In the streets of Southeast Asia is when he realized that the essence of his interests was no longer the land but the people and their way of life. 

He found himself comfortable being a child-like observer of the world around him where his natural intuitive and empathic abilities allowed him to feel the essence of a situation. His fascination with the Buddhist monks while visiting Asia was a profound foreshadowing of upcoming transitions and the beginning of his own spiritual practice (little did he know). 

It was soon after his return from Asia that he decided to leave his career as a mechanical engineer in search of a life that had more purpose. Two years later while living in Austin, Texas Jason felt an intuitive calling to move to the mountains. In less than a week he packed a few possessions, including his faithful dog, and found himself living in a small mountain town in Colorado.  It was there where he met a talented and beautiful artist who rekindled his creativity, love of photography, and more importantly planted a deep seed inside him when she whispered: “Jason, you are an artist.” 

Shortly after, in the summer of 2021 he ventured to the Texas border to create his first long-term documentary project Migrations: The Texas Border. This experience engrained in him that he was a photographer, but documentary work was not what he wanted to pursue. It was then he recalled the painters words “you are an artist;” and recognized the inner need to pursue creative projects. The works that followed visually shifted towards the surreal and mysterious, yet retained the narrative component of documentary work. More importantly, each successive project had in its core a spiritual context, said or unsaid, which progressively deepened as he continued. After a year long spiritual retreat in 2024 he was renewed again…picking right up where he left off with a burning passion to use art to awakening others. 

“To simultaneously use the arts to express spiritual truths at higher levels of structural development is the future of art. Post-Modernity is an artistic stage at this point. If you wish to work at the leading edge you must awaken and develop into higher ‘integral’ structures of development” he says. 

“My intention is to transmit the nature of Spirit using photography as a medium; to become a vessel and instrument of growth, healing, and awakening for the benefit of all beings.”   

Jason currently resides in Austin, Texas.