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 full-time engineering manager and to gain an MBA while working, this again put a pause on his creative endeavors outside the workplace for a year and a half, but after graduation he 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 not 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 was a profound foreshadowing of upcoming transitions that would occur. 

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. Five months later he experienced a personal loss that shook the foundation of everything he had planned for himself; his whole world seemingly fell apart overnight.  In this dark time, he felt his physical being shift; priorities, values, and the way he viewed the world were different.  The experience was a blessing in disguise and the beginning of what would become a Zen practice. Shortly after, he began assisting humanitarian-based companies, while maintaining a simple secluded lifestyle. 

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 an eccentric yet beautiful artist who rekindled his creativity, love of photography and more importantly planted a deep seed inside him as she whispered: “Jason, you are an artist.” 

He ventured to the Texas border to create his first long-term project Migrations: The Texas Border. This experience broke his heart open when he witnessed such human suffering firsthand and then again at the seeming indifference of the topic when he returned. In his own words: 

“It wasn’t the indifference to my work that broke me; it was the indifference to the people that broke my heart…but a latent seed was planted to find a new way to express myself. I placed photojournalism on the shelf and embraced a desire for pure creative expression. I am now seeking to express the transrational nature of what is: a union of the sacred and mundane. ”